What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ?

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ requires approximately 43 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 VL 72B Instruct AWQ and how large is it?

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ is developed by Qwen, 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 VL 72B Instruct AWQ?

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

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ by Qwen — VRAM 43GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ
Author: Qwen

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 43GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

Arxiv:2308.12966 Arxiv:2409.12191 4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen2-vl-72b-i... Conversational En Image-text-to-text Instruct Multimodal Quantized Qwen2 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct-AWQ

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Base Model(s)	Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	43 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-11 3.9 GB: 2-of-11 4.0 GB: 3-of-11 4.0 GB: 4-of-11 3.9 GB: 5-of-11 4.0 GB: 6-of-11 4.0 GB: 7-of-11 3.9 GB: 8-of-11 4.0 GB: 9-of-11 4.0 GB: 10-of-11 3.3 GB: 11-of-11
Supported Languages	en
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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