Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
18.7 B
Context
—
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
Parameters 8.2 B 18.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 3,971,809
Downloads all time 137.6 M 42.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-05-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.4 M3.8 M
Qwen3-8B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-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
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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