Qwen3-8B vs Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bartowski · B · Open weights
Params
32.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
955 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF
Parameters 8.2 B 32.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 8,080,572 954,609
Downloads all time 133.5 M 1.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

16.6 M189 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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