Qwen3-8B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
17.8 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.0 M
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 17.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | NemotronHForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 6 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,837,564 | 1,011,751 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 M | 3.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2026-08-04 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 M196 K
Qwen3-8B
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
366.4 GB / 24 GB