Qwen3-8B vs Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24

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
Vikhrmodels · B
Params
12.3 B
Context
1,024,000
30d
396 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24
Parameters 8.2 B 12.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 1,024,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 396,277
Downloads all time 103.2 M 3.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

16.6 M396 K
Qwen3-8B Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24 · fp16 @ 1000K ctx 258.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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