What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 requires approximately 10.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 and how large is it?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 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 VL 8B Instruct FP8?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 by Qwen — VRAM 10.6GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 10.6GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Arxiv:2308.12966 Arxiv:2409.12191 Arxiv:2502.13923 Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-in... Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Fp8 Image-text-to-text Instruct Qwen3 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	10.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 5.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8.