Qwen2-VL 2B Instruct on AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series NAS (256 GB)

Can the AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series NAS (256 GB) run Qwen2-VL 2B Instruct?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 21.1 GB of 230 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 43.8 tok/s.

Best quant: Q6_K
Generation speed: 43.8 tok/s
Prompt processing: 181 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 5.7 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series NAS (256 GB)

On Linux

llama.cpp

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp

Usually the first to support new model architectures.

llama-server -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF:Q6_K

Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…
KoboldCpp

How we choose: the files published for this model, which apps run in a container on a NAS without a graphics card (models run on its processor), and whether the model fits fully in the memory models can use. Details.

Download Qwen2-VL 2B Instruct

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 52/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q6_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series NAS (256 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	10.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	2.1 / 15
Match score	52.8 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series NAS (256 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	20.2 GB	230 GB	104 tok/s	Runs great	16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	20.3 GB	230 GB	81.7 tok/s	Runs great	20Basic quality (D) · 20 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	20.6 GB	230 GB	63.2 tok/s	Runs great	22Basic quality (D) · 22 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 52/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	20.8 GB	230 GB	52.2 tok/s	Runs great	23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 52/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	21.1 GB	230 GB	43.8 tok/s	Runs great	23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 52/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	21.6 GB	230 GB	32.2 tok/s	Runs great	24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	23.7 GB	230 GB	14.8 tok/s	Runs well	24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 F16 · 45.4 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB F16 · 46.9 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER F16 · 65.7 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q8_0 · 76.9 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT F16 · 71.8 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 87.6 tok/s · Runs great

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.