What are the hardware requirements for Yi 1.5 9B 8bit?

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit requires approximately 9.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 1.5 9B 8bit and how large is it?

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit 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 Yi 1.5 9B 8bit?

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 9.3GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 1.5 9B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 9.3GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

8bit Llama Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Yi-1.5-9B-8bit

Yi 1.5 9B 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

Model converted to MLX format from Yi-1.5-9B.

LLM Name	Yi 1.5 9B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Yi-1.5-9B-8bit
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	9.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 4.0 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.37.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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