Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
16.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
18.2 B
Context
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4
Parameters 8.2 B 18.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 1,887,525
Downloads all time 103.2 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-06-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

16.6 M1.9 M
Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-27B-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
Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 · fp16 27.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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