What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 1.5B 4bit?

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit requires approximately 0.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 1.5B 4bit and how large is it?

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.5b 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 Qwen2 1.5B 4bit?

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 0.9GB, 128K context

Name: Qwen2 1.5B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 0.9GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

4bit Conversational En Mlx Pretrained Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-1.5B-4bit

Qwen2 1.5B 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Primary Use Cases:

text generation

LLM Name	Qwen2 1.5B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-1.5B-4bit
Base Model(s)	DeepMount00/Qwen2-1.5B-Ita DeepMount00/Qwen2-1.5B-Ita
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	0.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	0.9 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Qwen2-1.5B-4bit.