Qwen3-8B vs Kimi-K3-DSpark

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
16.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RadixArk · B
Params
2.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
798 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Kimi-K3-DSpark
Parameters 8.2 B 2.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM DSparkDraftModel
Context length 40,960 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 798,444
Downloads all time 103.2 M 798 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-07-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

16.6 M168 K
Qwen3-8B Kimi-K3-DSpark

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 48.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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