What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 9B Bf16?

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 requires approximately 18.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 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 Bf16?

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 18.8GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B Bf16
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 18.8GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-bf16

Qwen3.5 9B Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-bf16
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	18.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 2.8 GB: 4-of-4
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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