Qwen3-8B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 12.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | — |
| Context length | 40,960 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 6 |
| Downloads 30d | 16,272,885 | 363,704 |
| Downloads all time | 103.2 M | 919 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-08-21 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
16.6 M364 K
Qwen3-8B
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 · fp16
29.4 GB / 24 GB