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Q43GB VRAM minimum

Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct Q4 VRAM Requirements

This page answers Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct q4 quantization queries with explicit calculations from our model requirement dataset and compatibility speed table.

Requirement Snapshot
Current quantization-specific requirement breakdown
Selected quantizationQ4
Minimum VRAM3GB
Q4 baseline3GB
Q8 baseline5GB
FP16 baseline11GB
Methodology
No hand-wavy numbers

Exact Q4 requirement from model requirement data.

Throughput data below uses available compatibility measurements/estimates and is sorted by tokens per second for this model.

Need general guidance? Review full methodology.

Best GPUs for Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct (Q4)

GPUVRAMQuantizationSpeedCompatibility
NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB141GBQ4723 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI300X192GBQ4689 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI250X128GBQ4502 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB80GBQ4446 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM480GBQ4318 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB80GBQ4314 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 509032GBQ4305 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI21064GBQ4236 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe40GBQ4213 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GBQ4194 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 409024GBQ4182 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Radeon Pro W790048GBQ4154 tok/sView full compatibility
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