Can I Run Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2026年8月15日

No. Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct needs 43.5 GB at Q4_K_M and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 has only 12 GB. No quantization we publish closes a gap that size.

The numbers

Either step down to a smaller size in this family, or move to a NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation (48 GB), the cheapest card we track with enough VRAM.

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Cheapest card we track with enough VRAM for Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct:

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 48GB

48 GB VRAM · 300 W board power

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Won't fit — rent Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct instead

Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct needs ~43 GB but this GPU has 12 GB. Rent a A100 (80 GB)-class GPU by the hour instead of buying one:

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