What are the hardware requirements for Llama 2 7B?

Llama 2 7B requires approximately 13.5 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 Llama 2 7B and how large is it?

Llama 2 7B is developed by Gargaz, a model with 7b 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 Llama 2 7B?

Llama 2 7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 2 7B by Gargaz — VRAM 13.5GB, 4K context

Name: Llama 2 7B
Author: Gargaz

Llama 2 7B is an open-source language model by Gargaz. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Dataset:gargaz/llama2 Doi:10.57967/hf/2005 En Fasttext Llama Pytorch Region:us Ro Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Gargaz/llama-2-7b

Llama 2 7B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Supported Languages

en (full), ro (full)

LLM Name	Llama 2 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Gargaz/llama-2-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	Gargaz
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 10.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.5 GB: 2-of-2 3.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en ro
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.31.0
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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