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nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4

nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4

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Hardware Recommendations

Three tiers based on VRAM requirements: minimum for basic inference, comfortable for longer contexts, headroom for future model sizes.

Minimum $7,999

Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max, 128GB)

128GB unified 85W TDP

Runs 397B at Q4_K_M quantization with 4K context.

Comfortable $7,999

Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max, 128GB)

128GB unified 85W TDP

Runs 397B at Q5_K_M quantization with 8K+ context.

Headroom $7,999

Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max, 128GB)

128GB unified 85W TDP

Runs 397B at FP16 with 32K+ context or comfortably handles the next size up.

VRAM Requirements

Quantization VRAM Use case
Q4_K_M 241 GB Basic inference, 4K context
Q5_K_M 300 GB Good quality, 8K+ context
Q8 479 GB Near-lossless, 16K+ context
FP16 955 GB Full precision, max quality

Formula: params × bytes_per_param × 1.2 overhead + 2 GB base. Actual requirements vary by framework and context length.