Qwen-72B vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
Qwen · B
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
475 K

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
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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