What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4?

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 requires approximately 251.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 is developed by nvidia, a model with 397b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1442. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 by nvidia — VRAM 251.1GB

Name: Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4
Author: nvidia

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 397b LLM, VRAM: 251.1GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.49, ELO: 1442.

Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-397b-a... Conversational Fp4 Model optimizer Modelopt Nvidia Quantized Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1442 vs 1272 (so35) 13.4%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 397B A17B NVFP4
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Model Size	397b
Required VRAM	251.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	qwen3_5_moe
Model Files	25.0 GB: 1-of-11 25.0 GB: 2-of-11 25.0 GB: 3-of-11 25.0 GB: 4-of-11 25.0 GB: 5-of-11 25.0 GB: 6-of-11 25.0 GB: 7-of-11 25.0 GB: 8-of-11 25.0 GB: 9-of-11 25.0 GB: 10-of-11 1.1 GB: 11-of-11
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.3.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4.