Qwen-72B vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen-72B | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 72.3 B | 73.0 B |
| Architecture | QWenLMHeadModel | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 32,768 |
| Licence | other | other |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Unknown |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,220,611 | 475,362 |
| Downloads all time | 7.5 M | 11.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-11-26 | 2024-09-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
4.2 M374 K
Qwen-72B
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16
57.2 GB / 24 GB
Qwen-72B · fp16
170.4 GB / 24 GB