Qwen 3.5 9B — VRAM Requirements

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 21 lipca 2026

How much GPU VRAM you need to run Qwen 3.5 Qwen 3.5 9B by Alibaba Cloud locally, a 9B-parameter model. Figures are quantized weights + KV cache + framework overhead from a memory-bandwidth roofline model.

Qwen 3.5 9B needs about 6 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M.

VRAM by Quantization

QuantBits/weightWeightsTotal VRAM
Q2_K2.633.0 GB3.8 GB
Q3_K_M3.413.8 GB4.6 GB
Q4_K_M4.835.4 GB6.2 GB
Q5_K_M5.676.4 GB7.2 GB
Q6_K6.567.4 GB8.2 GB
Q8_08.509.6 GB10.4 GB
F1616.0018.0 GB18.8 GB

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VRAM Requirements

[![VRAM Requirements](https://img.shields.io/badge/Check_VRAM-LLM_Configurator-blue)](https://llmconfigurator.com/en/vram-calculator/qwen3-5-9b)

Estimates only — actual VRAM varies with context length, batch size, runtime and KV-cache settings.