What are the hardware requirements for Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit?

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit requires approximately 54.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 32b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit has the following published scores: MMLU 74.99, LMSYS ELO 1203. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 54.9GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 54.9GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25, ELO: 1203, Arc: 66, HellaSwag: 85.5, MMLU: 75, GSM8K: 7.1.

8bit Chat Conversational En Mlx Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat-8bit

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1203 vs 1272 (so35) -5.4%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

LLM Name	Qwen1.5 32B Chat 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat-8bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat Qwen/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	54.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-4 5.4 GB: 1-of-7 5.4 GB: 2-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-7 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-7 3.3 GB: 4-of-4 5.3 GB: 4-of-7 5.3 GB: 5-of-7 5.4 GB: 6-of-7 3.3 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.38.0
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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