What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2?

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 requires approximately 23 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 and how large is it?

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 is developed by Orion-zhen, 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 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2?

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 by Orion-zhen — VRAM 23GB, 125K context

Name: Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2
Author: Orion-zhen

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 is an open-source language model by Orion-zhen. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 23GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Arxiv:2309.00071 2-bit Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Exl2 Instruct Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Orion-zhen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct-2.0bpw-h-novel-exl2

Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Orion-zhen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct-2.0bpw-h-novel-exl2
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	23 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Orion-zhen
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	8.6 GB: 1-of-3 8.6 GB: 2-of-3 5.8 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	exl2
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Qwen2 72B Instruct 2.0bpw H Novel EXL2

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen2 72B Instruct 4bit	32K / 40.9 GB	56	2
ECE ILAB Q1	32K / 77.8 GB	15	0
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Bnb 4bit	32K / 41.4 GB	3470	8
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 4bit	32K / 40.9 GB	1200	7
Athene V2 Chat 4.65bpw H6 EXL2	32K / 44.3 GB	6	6
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 8bit	32K / 77.1 GB	614	3
Qwen2 72B Instruct Bpw5.5 EXL2	32K / 51.8 GB	1	1
...struct Mix Calibration 4B EXL2	32K / 38.8 GB	3	2
Qwen2 72B Instruct Bpw4 EXL2	32K / 38.7 GB	5	0
Qwen2 72B Instruct 8bit	32K / 77.1 GB	48	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Orion-zhen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct-2.0bpw-h-novel-exl2.