Qwen3-8B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4

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
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
18.2 B
Context
262,144
30d
733 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4
Parameters 8.2 B 18.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 6
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 733,222
Downloads all time 137.6 M 7.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-12-20

Download trend

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

16.4 M492 K
Qwen3-8B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 109.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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