Qwen3-8B vs gemma-7b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B · Open weights
Params
8.5 B
Context
—
30d
200 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B gemma-7b
Parameters 8.2 B 8.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GemmaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 200,487
Downloads all time 137.6 M 3.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-02-08

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.4 M150 K
Qwen3-8B gemma-7b

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
gemma-7b · fp16 20.6 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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