Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-8B-AWQ

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

Qwen · B

Params

8.2 B

Context

40,960

30d

1.1 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	16,272,885	1,148,714
Downloads all time	103.2 M	7.8 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

16.6 M838 K

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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