Qwen3-8B vs Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B-Base

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
nvidia · B
Params
8.5 B
Context
4,096
30d
434 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B-Base
Parameters 8.2 B 8.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM NemotronLabsDiffusionModel
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 434,170
Downloads all time 103.2 M 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-01-14

Download trend

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

16.6 M424 K
Qwen3-8B Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B-Base · fp16 20.5 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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