What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 72B?

Qwen2.5 72B requires approximately 145.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 72B and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 72B is developed by Columbidae, a model with 72b 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 Qwen2.5 72B?

Qwen2.5 72B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 72B by Columbidae — VRAM 145.5GB, 128K context

Name: Qwen2.5 72B
Author: Columbidae

Qwen2.5 72B is an open-source language model by Columbidae. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 145.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2407.10671 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Columbidae/Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5 72B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 72B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Columbidae/Qwen2.5-72B
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	145.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	Columbidae
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.8 GB: 1-of-37 4.0 GB: 2-of-37 3.8 GB: 3-of-37 4.0 GB: 4-of-37 4.0 GB: 5-of-37 4.0 GB: 6-of-37 3.8 GB: 7-of-37 4.0 GB: 8-of-37 4.0 GB: 9-of-37 4.0 GB: 10-of-37 3.8 GB: 11-of-37 4.0 GB: 12-of-37 4.0 GB: 13-of-37 4.0 GB: 14-of-37 3.8 GB: 15-of-37 4.0 GB: 16-of-37 4.0 GB: 17-of-37 4.0 GB: 18-of-37 3.8 GB: 19-of-37 4.0 GB: 20-of-37 4.0 GB: 21-of-37 4.0 GB: 22-of-37 3.8 GB: 23-of-37 4.0 GB: 24-of-37 4.0 GB: 25-of-37 4.0 GB: 26-of-37 3.8 GB: 27-of-37 4.0 GB: 28-of-37 4.0 GB: 29-of-37 4.0 GB: 30-of-37 3.8 GB: 31-of-37 4.0 GB: 32-of-37 4.0 GB: 33-of-37 4.0 GB: 34-of-37 3.8 GB: 35-of-37 4.0 GB: 36-of-37 3.5 GB: 37-of-37
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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...R10528DistillQwen 72B Preview3	195K / 146 GB	8	7
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