What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 requires approximately 81.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 and how large is it?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 is developed by Qwen, a model with 80b 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 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 by Qwen — VRAM 81.8GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 80b LLM, VRAM: 81.8GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2404.06654 Arxiv:2501.15383 Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-next-80b... Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Fp8 Instruct Qwen3 next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Model Size	80b
Required VRAM	81.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_next
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	10.7 GB: 1-of-8 10.7 GB: 2-of-8 10.7 GB: 3-of-8 10.7 GB: 4-of-8 10.7 GB: 5-of-8 10.7 GB: 6-of-8 10.7 GB: 7-of-8 6.9 GB: 8-of-8
Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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