Qwen3-8B vs llama-7b

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
huggyllama · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
2,048
30d
288 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B llama-7b
Parameters 8.2 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 288,309
Downloads all time 103.2 M 7.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-04-03

Download trend

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

16.6 M287 K
Qwen3-8B llama-7b

VRAM side by side

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

llama-7b · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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