Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF

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

Qwen · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
30d
19.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B
Params
12.0 B
Context
30d
898 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF
Parameters 8.8 B 12.0 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 19,744,243 898,177
Downloads all time 68.6 M 3.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-05-29

Download trend

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

19.7 M844 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF · Q4_0 9.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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