What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8?

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 requires approximately 1.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 and how large is it?

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 is developed by Qwen, a model with 0.5b 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 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8?

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 by Qwen — VRAM 1.5GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8
Author: Qwen

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8

Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Applications:

language understanding, language generation, multilingual capability, coding, mathematics, reasoning

Supported Languages

en (fluent)

Training Details

Methodology:

pretrained on a large amount of data, post-trained with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization

Model Architecture:

Transformer with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

Performance Tips:

use vLLM to avoid inference errors with 'transformers'

LLM Name	Qwen2 0.5B Instruct GPTQ Int8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-06
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.37.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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