What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking requires approximately 162.7 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 Thinking and how large is it?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is developed by unsloth, a model with 80b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1369. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by unsloth — VRAM 162.7GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Author: unsloth

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 80b LLM, VRAM: 162.7GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35, ELO: 1369.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2501.15383 Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-next-80b... Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen3 next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1369 vs 1272 (so35) 7.6%

^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 Next 80B A3B Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Model Size	80b
Required VRAM	162.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3_next
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Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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