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Home/Qwen 2.5 VL 72B/on NVIDIA A800 80GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A800 80GB run Qwen 2.5 VL 72B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

34.4 tok/s

TTFT

5634 ms

Safe context

20K

Memory

65.6 GB / 80.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights43.9 GB
KV Cache11.3 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom8.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns with offload34.4 tok/s8194 ms33K
ChatCRuns well34.4 tok/s3073 ms11K
CodingCRuns well34.4 tok/s5634 ms20K
RAGCRuns with offload34.4 tok/s10243 ms33K
ReasoningCRuns well34.4 tok/s6658 ms20K

Quantization options

How Qwen 2.5 VL 72B (72B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A800 80GB (80.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
28.1 GB
LowD37
Q3_K_S
3
35.3 GB
LowD39
NVFP4
4
40.3 GB
MediumC40
Q4_K_M
4
43.9 GB
MediumC41
Q5_K_M
5
51.8 GB
HighC43
Q6_KBest for your GPU
6
59.0 GB
HighC44
Q8_0
8
77.0 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
147.6 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-2.5-vl-72b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-2.5-vl-72b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen 2.5 VL 72B well

NVIDIANVIDIA GH200 96GBBudget pick
B73.8 tok/s decode

 

NVIDIANVIDIA H20 96GBBiggest leap
B73.8 tok/s decode

 

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