What are the hardware requirements for QVQ 72B Preview 3bit?

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit requires approximately 32.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed QVQ 72B Preview 3bit and how large is it?

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 72b 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 QVQ 72B Preview 3bit?

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit by mlx-community — VRAM 32.2GB, 125K context

Name: QVQ 72B Preview 3bit
Author: mlx-community

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 32.2GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized.

3bit Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2-vl-72b Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Qwen2 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QVQ-72B-Preview-3bit

QVQ 72B Preview 3bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	QVQ 72B Preview 3bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QVQ-72B-Preview-3bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	32.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2_vl
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-7 5.4 GB: 2-of-7 5.3 GB: 3-of-7 5.4 GB: 4-of-7 5.3 GB: 5-of-7 4.9 GB: 6-of-7 0.5 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	3bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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