vit-base-patch16-224 vs resnet-50

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
90 M
Context
—
30d
15.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
—
30d
212 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification vit-base-patch16-224 resnet-50
Parameters 90 M 30 M
Architecture ViTForImageClassification ResNetForImageClassification
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 15,008,966 211,700
Downloads all time 207.9 M 574.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-16

Download trend

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

16.2 M212 K
vit-base-patch16-224 resnet-50

VRAM side by side

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

resnet-50 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
vit-base-patch16-224 · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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