Qwen3-8B vs MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit

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
cyankiwi · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
524,288
30d
621 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit
Parameters 8.2 B 3.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MiniCPMSALAForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 524,288
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 620,818
Downloads all time 137.6 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-02-15

Download trend

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

16.4 M166 K
Qwen3-8B MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit · fp16 @ 512K ctx 41.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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