What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 9B 6bit?

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit requires approximately 8.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 9B 6bit and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 9b 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 Qwen3.5 9B 6bit?

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 8.1GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B 6bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized.

6-bit 6bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b-bas... Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-6bit

Qwen3.5 9B 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-6bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 2.8 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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