What are the hardware requirements for Llama2 13B Chat Hf?

Llama2 13B Chat Hf requires approximately 26 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama2 13B Chat Hf and how large is it?

Llama2 13B Chat Hf is developed by Featherless-Chat-Models, a model with 13b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Llama2 13B Chat Hf?

Llama2 13B Chat Hf is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama2 13B Chat Hf by Featherless-Chat-Models — VRAM 26GB, 4K context

Name: Llama2 13B Chat Hf
Author: Featherless-Chat-Models

Llama2 13B Chat Hf is an open-source language model by Featherless-Chat-Models. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Arxiv:2307.09288 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Facebook Llama Llama2 Meta Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Featherless-Chat-Models/llama2-13b-chat-hf

Llama2 13B Chat Hf Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama2 13B Chat Hf
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Featherless-Chat-Models/llama2-13b-chat-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	Featherless-Chat-Models
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3 9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.31.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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