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Best GPU for Qwen 2.5 7B

Ranked recommendations from the 42-GPU catalog for running Qwen 2.5 7B (7B params). Top picks by quality, then by cost.

Top picks.

$ ./rank --by quality
Tightest budget
RTX 3070
8GB · runs at Q5_K_M
4.8 GB weights · 0.74 GB headroom
Best quality
RTX 3090
24GB · runs at FP16/BF16
smallest card supporting the best available quant
Apple Silicon
M2 Max 64
64GB · runs at FP16/BF16
smallest M-series that fits
Datacenter (FP16 ambition)
H100 80GB
80GB · runs at FP16/BF16
best-quality datacenter card that fits

Full ranked list.

$ ./vrambudget --rank qwen-2-5-7b

Next steps.

$ ./next

Discussion.

$ gh discussion list

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