Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct — VRAM, speed & local setup
Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated
Compact vision-language model that punches above its weight. Excellent OCR, document parsing, and visual reasoning. Understands charts, invoices, screenshots, and web pages. Fits in 6GB VRAM.
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct needs about 6 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M — quantized weights plus framework overhead, before any KV cache. On Apple Silicon that figure comes out of unified memory.
VRAM and speed by quantization
Quoted against NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB). Includes the KV cache at 8K context, so it reads higher than the headline figure.
| Quant | Memory | VRAM | Speed (est.) | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K 2.63 bpw | 4 GB | ~162 tok/s | Fits | |
| Q3_K_M 3.41 bpw | 4.8 GB | ~138 tok/s | Fits | |
| Q4_K_M 4.83 bpw | 6.3 GB | ~109 tok/s | Fits | |
| Q5_K_M 5.67 bpw | 7.1 GB | ~97 tok/s | Fits | |
| Q6_K 6.56 bpw | 8.1 GB | ~87 tok/s | Fits | |
| Q8_0 8.50 bpw | 10.1 GB | ~70 tok/s | Fits | |
| F16 16.00 bpw | 17.8 GB | ~41 tok/s | Fits |
Black marker = usable memory on the NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB). Estimates from the memory-bandwidth roofline on the methodology page. Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct VRAM calculator →
Get Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct running
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How to run Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Install Ollama, then run:
ollama run qwen2.5vl:7bSpecifications
Curated — A hand-written entry from before this catalogue recorded its sources. The figures are long-standing but their provenance is not on file.
- Parameters
- 7 Billion
- Context window
- 128,000
- Architecture
- Dense + ViT
- Provider
- Alibaba Cloud
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Practical deployment
- Laptop
- Specified at
- Q4_K_M
- System RAM
- 16 GB
- Record updated
- 2025-01-25
Commercial use permitted. No usage restrictions beyond attribution.
Quality and use cases
Scores as published by the model’s authors or an independent evaluator — quality, not throughput, and not measured by us.
Can I run Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on my GPU?
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Apple M1 Max
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Apple M2 Max
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Apple M3 Max
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Apple M5 Pro
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Intel Arc B570
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on Intel Arc B580
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA A100 80GB (PCIe)
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA H100 80GB (PCIe)
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA L40S
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation
- Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
Other Qwen 2.5 VL sizes
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct — frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct need?
About 6 GB at Q4_K_M — quantized weights plus framework overhead, before any KV cache. The cache grows with context length and is added on top; the table above folds it in. Apple Silicon counts unified memory toward the same figure.
Does Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct run on an RTX 4090 (24 GB)?
Yes. Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct needs about 6 GB at Q4_K_M, inside a 24 GB card, at an estimated 109 tokens/sec.
How do I run Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct locally?
Install Ollama and run `ollama run qwen2.5vl:7b`. That pulls the weights and starts a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint; after the download nothing leaves the machine.
What other sizes does Qwen 2.5 VL come in?
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct (6 GB), Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct (45 GB). Every size shares the family's training and licence; the larger ones score higher and need proportionally more memory.