What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 8B and how large is it?

Qwen3 8B is developed by Qwen, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 8B by Qwen — VRAM 16.4GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 8B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 8B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.37.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-8b-base Conversational Deploy:azure Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Eval-results Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B

Qwen3 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 8B Base Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-5 4.0 GB: 2-of-5 4.0 GB: 3-of-5 3.2 GB: 4-of-5 1.2 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3 8B AWQ	52	1030680	6 GB
Qwen3 8B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	22	514610	7 GB
Qwen3 8B GGUF	140	206898	2 GB
Qwen3 8B 4bit	11	31506	4 GB
Qwen3 8B Bnb 4bit	9	25283	6 GB
Qwen3 8B 128K GGUF	28	2106	2 GB
Qwen3 8B 4bit DWQ	2	963	4 GB
Qwen3 8B 8bit	3	815	8 GB
Qwen3 8B 4bit AWQ	1	186	4 GB
Qwen3 8B 6bit	4	132	6 GB

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