What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 8B GGUF?

Qwen3 8B GGUF requires approximately 2.3 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 GGUF and how large is it?

Qwen3 8B GGUF is developed by unsloth, 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 GGUF?

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

Qwen3 8B GGUF by unsloth — VRAM 2.3GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 8B GGUF
Author: unsloth

Qwen3 8B GGUF is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 2.3GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-8b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gguf Q2 Quantized Qwen Qwen3 Region:us Unsloth

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

Qwen3 8B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 8B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-8B-GGUF
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 8B Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	2.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	16.4 GB 4.8 GB 4.6 GB 3.3 GB 3.4 GB 4.1 GB 3.8 GB 5.2 GB 5.0 GB 4.8 GB 5.8 GB 5.7 GB 6.7 GB 8.7 GB 2.4 GB 2.3 GB 3.1 GB 2.6 GB 3.4 GB 3.5 GB 4.3 GB 5.1 GB 5.9 GB 7.5 GB 10.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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