---
pipeline_tag: text-generation
base_model:
- Qwen/Qwen3-8B
license: apache-2.0
library_name: Model Optimizer
tags:
- nvidia
- ModelOpt
- Qwen3
- quantized
- FP8
- fp8
---

# Model Overview

## Description:
The NVIDIA Qwen3-8B FP8 model is the quantized version of Alibaba's Qwen3-8B model, which is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. For more information, please check [here](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B). The NVIDIA Qwen3-8B FP8 model is quantized with [TensorRT Model Optimizer](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Optimizer).

This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.  <br>

## Third-Party Community Consideration
This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party’s requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA [(Qwen3-8B) Model Card](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B).

### License/Terms of Use:
Use of this model is governed by [Apache license 2.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/choosealicense/licenses/blob/main/markdown/apache-2.0.md)

### Deployment Geography:
Global <br>

### Use Case: <br>
Developers looking to take off the shelf pre-quantized models for deployment in AI Agent systems, chatbots, RAG systems, and other AI-powered applications. <br>

### Release Date:  <br>
Huggingface 09/15/2025 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Qwen3-8B-FP8 <br> 

## Model Architecture:
**Architecture Type:** Transformers  <br>
**Network Architecture:** Qwen3-8B <br>

**This model was developed based on Qwen3-8B
**Number of model parameters: 8.2*10^9

## Input:
**Input Type(s):** Text <br>
**Input Format(s):** String <br>
**Input Parameters:** 1D (One-Dimensional): Sequences <br>
**Other Properties Related to Input:** Context length up to 131K <br>

## Output:
**Output Type(s):** Text <br>
**Output Format:** String <br>
**Output Parameters:** 1D (One-Dimensional): Sequences <br>
**Other Properties Related to Output:** N/A <br>

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions. <br>  

## Software Integration:
**Supported Runtime Engine(s):** <br>
* TensorRT-LLM <br>

**Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:** <br>
* NVIDIA Blackwell <br>

**Preferred Operating System(s):** <br>
* Linux <br>

## Model Version(s):
The model is quantized with nvidia-modelopt **v0.35.0**  <br>

## Post Training Quantization
This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of Qwen3-8B to FP8 data type, ready for inference with TensorRT-LLM. Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformer blocks are quantized.

## Training and Testing Datasets:

** Data Modality
* [Text]

## Calibration Dataset: 
** Link: [cnn_dailymail](https://huggingface.co/datasets/abisee/cnn_dailymail) <br>
** Data collection method: Automated. <br>
** Labeling method: Automated. <br>

## Training Datasets:
** Data Collection Method by Dataset: Undisclosed <br>
** Labeling Method by Dataset: Undisclosed<br>
** Properties: Undisclosed

## Testing Dataset:
** Data Collection Method by Dataset: Undisclosed <br>
** Labeling Method by Dataset: Undisclosed <br>
** Properties: Undisclosed <br>

## Inference:
**Engine:** TensorRT-LLM <br>
**Test Hardware:** B200 <br>


## Usage

### Deploy with TensorRT-LLM

To deploy the quantized checkpoint with [TensorRT-LLM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM) LLM API, follow the sample codes below:

* LLM API sample usage:
```
from tensorrt_llm import LLM, SamplingParams


def main():

    prompts = [
        "Hello, my name is",
        "The president of the United States is",
        "The capital of France is",
        "The future of AI is",
    ]
    sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

    llm = LLM(model="nvidia/Qwen3-8B-FP8")

    outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

    # Print the outputs.
    for output in outputs:
        prompt = output.prompt
        generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
        print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")


# The entry point of the program needs to be protected for spawning processes.
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

```

## Ethical Considerations

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