Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ vs MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 22 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
252 K
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
116.4 B
Context
196,608
30d
222 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4
Parameters 73.0 B 116.4 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 196,608
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 252,438 221,989
Downloads all time 12.5 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-03-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.1 M222 K
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 A overtook B on 15 Sep

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
MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 573.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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