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

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
sakamakismile · B
Params
16.7 B
Context
30d
747 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-27B-Text-NVFP4-MTP
Parameters 8.2 B 16.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 11
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 747,066
Downloads all time 103.2 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-04-25

Download trend

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

16.6 M545 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-27B-Text-NVFP4-MTP

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-Text-NVFP4-MTP · fp16 24.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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