What are the hardware requirements for Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit?

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 12.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 19b 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 Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit?

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 12.4GB

Name: Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 19b LLM, VRAM: 12.4GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

4-bit 4bit 8bit Apple-silicon Base model:grootteam/groot-19b... Base model:quantized:grootteam... Conversational Groot Image-text-to-text Mixed-precision Mlx Moe Optiq Quantized Qwen3 5 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit

Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Groot 19B A3B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	Groot 19B A3B 261023 GrootTeam/Groot-19B-A3B-261023
Model Size	19b
Required VRAM	12.4 GB
Updated	2026-11-09
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5_moe
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-3 5.4 GB: 2-of-3 1.6 GB: 3-of-3 0.9 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.8.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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