What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit requires approximately 8.9 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 Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 7b 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 VL 7B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 8.9GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 8.9GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

8bit Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Instruct Mlx Multimodal Quantized Qwen2 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit

Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	8.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 3.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct 4bit	32K / 4.7 GB	648	2
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Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct AWQ	32K / 6.9 GB	10752	22
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct GPTQ Int4	32K / 7 GB	2588	14
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Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct Bf16	32K / 16.6 GB	50	4

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