Qwen3-8B vs Llama-2-13b-chat-hf

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
meta-llama · B
Params
13.0 B
Context
30d
216 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Llama-2-13b-chat-hf
Parameters 8.2 B 13.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 215,883
Downloads all time 103.2 M 15.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-07-13

Download trend

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

16.6 M208 K
Qwen3-8B Llama-2-13b-chat-hf

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Llama-2-13b-chat-hf · fp16 31.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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