Qwen3-8B vs saiga_llama3_8b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
12.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
IlyaGusev · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
414 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B saiga_llama3_8b
Parameters 8.2 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,880,320 413,807
Downloads all time 124.0 M 5.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

16.6 M388 K
Qwen3-8B saiga_llama3_8b

VRAM side by side

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

saiga_llama3_8b · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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