What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 requires approximately 6.2 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 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 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 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 6.2GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Chat Code Codegen Codeqwen Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Mlx Qwen Qwen-coder Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct-bf16

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct-bf16
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 0.8 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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