Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3.6-27B-AWQ-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Alennnndy · B · Open weights
Params
27.7 B
Context
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30d
302 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Qwen3.6-27B-AWQ-4bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 27.7 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 40,960 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 8,080,572 | 302,079 |
| Downloads all time | 133.5 M | 371 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2026-07-03 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
16.6 M180 K
Qwen3-8B
Qwen3.6-27B-AWQ-4bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3.6-27B-AWQ-4bit · fp16
25.2 GB / 24 GB