What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx requires approximately 24.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx and how large is it?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx is developed by nightmedia, a model with 80b 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 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx by nightmedia — VRAM 24.9GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx
Author: nightmedia

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx is an open-source language model by nightmedia. Features: 80b LLM, VRAM: 24.9GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

2-bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-next-80b... Conversational Instruct Mlx Q2 Quantized Qwen3 next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nightmedia/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-q2-mlx

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Q2 Mlx
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nightmedia/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-q2-mlx
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Model Size	80b
Required VRAM	24.9 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	nightmedia
Model Type	qwen3_next
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-5 5.3 GB: 2-of-5 5.3 GB: 3-of-5 5.3 GB: 4-of-5 3.7 GB: 5-of-5
Quantization Type	q2
Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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