What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF?

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF requires approximately 1.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF is developed by MaziyarPanahi, a model with 7b 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 7B Instruct GGUF?

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF by MaziyarPanahi — VRAM 1.9GB

Name: Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF
Author: MaziyarPanahi

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by MaziyarPanahi. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 1.9GB, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

2-bit 3-bit 4-bit 5-bit 6-bit 8-bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen2-7b-instr... Conversational Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3 Mistral Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF

Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Quantized by MaziyarPanahi into GGUF format, which replaces the outdated GGML format.

LLM Name	Qwen2 7B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Name	Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Creator	Qwen
Base Model(s)	Qwen2 7B Instruct Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	1.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	MaziyarPanahi
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.0 GB 1.9 GB 2.5 GB 3.4 GB 4.2 GB 3.0 GB 4.1 GB 3.8 GB 3.5 GB 4.7 GB 4.5 GB 5.4 GB 5.3 GB 6.2 GB 8.1 GB 15.2 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel

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Pixel	8K / 4.4 GB	17	0
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Mistral 7B Instruct V0.3 GGUF	0K / 1.6 GB	91691	147
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Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF	0K / 3.1 GB	70243	511
Qwen2 7B Instruct V0.6 GGUF	0K / 4.5 GB	13522	0
Qwen2 7B Instruct V0.1 GGUF	0K / 4.5 GB	9714	0
Qwen2 7B Instruct V0.7 GGUF	0K / 4.5 GB	9530	0
Qwen2 7B Instruct V0.3 GGUF	0K / 4.5 GB	8911	1
Qwen2 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF	0K / 4.5 GB	7986	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than MaziyarPanahi/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF.