Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-8B-AWQ

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

Qwen · B · Open weights

Params

8.2 B

Context

40,960

30d

1.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-8B	Qwen3-8B-AWQ
Parameters	8.2 B	8.2 B
Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length	40,960	40,960
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	—
Downloads 30d	6,837,564	1,623,086
Downloads all time	137.6 M	14.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-04-27	2025-05-03

Download trend

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

16.4 M1.4 M

Qwen3-8B Qwen3-8B-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B-AWQ · fp16 8.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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