What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit requires approximately 36.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 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.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 36.2GB, 125K context

Name: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 36.2GB, Context: 125K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

8bit Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Instruct Mlx Multimodal Quantized Qwen2 5 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-8bit

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-8bit
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	36.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2_5_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-7 5.4 GB: 2-of-7 5.3 GB: 3-of-7 5.4 GB: 4-of-7 5.4 GB: 5-of-7 5.3 GB: 6-of-7 4.1 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.50.1
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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