What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16?

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 requires approximately 3.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 and how large is it?

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is developed by Qwen, a model with 1.7b 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 Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16?

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 by Qwen — VRAM 3.4GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-1.7b-bas... Conversational Mlx Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-bf16

Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 1.7B MLX Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-bf16
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.4 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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