Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-8B-FP8

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
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
240 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8
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 6,837,564 239,712
Downloads all time 137.6 M 567 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-09-09

Download trend

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

16.4 M195 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B-FP8 · fp16 12.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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