What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 3B 8bit?

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit requires approximately 3.3 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 Qwen2.5 3B 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Qwen2.5 3B 8bit?

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3.3GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 3B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.3GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-8bit

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit Benchmarks

LLME Score: 0.15095

^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)

Qwen2.5 3B 8bit (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-8bit)

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Qwen2.5 3B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 3B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-8bit
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.3 GB
Updated	2026-05-16
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

Best Alternatives to Qwen2.5 3B 8bit

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...5 3B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	32K / 2.4 GB	153672	7
TethysAI Base Reasoning	32K / 6.2 GB	55	0
Kyro N1 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	12	12
Athena 1 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	3	1
Qwen2.5 3B Reasoner	32K / 6.2 GB	13	0
QwQ LCoT 3B Instruct	32K / 6.2 GB	23	5
Test StealthThinker	32K / 6.2 GB	13	0
Qwen2.5 3B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	32K / 2.6 GB	21941	0
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct Bnb 4bit	32K / 2 GB	99420	14
...2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bnb 4bit	32K / 2 GB	21356	7

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-8bit.

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