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Q435GB VRAM minimum

Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Q4 VRAM Requirements

This page answers Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-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 VRAM35GB
Q4 baseline35GB
Q8 baseline70GB
FP16 baseline141GB
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/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4)

GPUVRAMQuantizationSpeedCompatibility
AMD Instinct MI300X192GBQ4153 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB141GBQ4127 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB80GBQ499 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI250X128GBQ492 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB80GBQ468 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 509032GBQ464 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM480GBQ455 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI21064GBQ452 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe40GBQ444 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GBQ436 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L4048GBQ436 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L40S48GBQ435 tok/sView full compatibility
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