What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit?

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit requires approximately 8.5 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 8B MLX 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit is developed by Qwen, a model with 8b 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 8B MLX 8bit?

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit by Qwen — VRAM 8.5GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 8.5GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 8-bit 8bit Conversational Mlx Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit

Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 8B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	8.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 3.1 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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