What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 9B AWQ?

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ requires approximately 12.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 9B AWQ and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ is developed by QuantTrio, a model with 9b 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 Qwen3.5 9B AWQ?

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ by QuantTrio — VRAM 12.4GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B AWQ
Author: QuantTrio

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ is an open-source language model by QuantTrio. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 12.4GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35.

4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Quantized Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/QuantTrio/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ

Qwen3.5 9B AWQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/QuantTrio/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	12.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	QuantTrio
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	3.0 GB: 1-of-5 3.0 GB: 2-of-5 3.0 GB: 3-of-5 3.0 GB: 4-of-5 0.4 GB: 5-of-5
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Qwen3.5 9B AWQ 4bit	0K / 9.1 GB	214142	35
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 4bit	0K / 5.9 GB	580012	4
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 8bit	0K / 10.4 GB	550497	1
Ornith 1.0 9B 4bit	0K / 5.9 GB	9791	9
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 4bit	0K / 5.9 GB	22827	151
Ornith 1.0 9B OptiQ 4bit	0K / 7.1 GB	1656	8
Qwen3.5 9B 8bit	0K / 10.4 GB	45652	17
Qwen3.5 9B OptiQ 4bit	0K / 7.1 GB	10136	86
Ornith 1.0 9B 8bit	0K / 10.4 GB	2079	2
Qwen3.5 9B 4bit Vmlx	0K / 5.9 GB	143	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than QuantTrio/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ.