What are the hardware requirements for MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2?

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 requires approximately 24.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 and how large is it?

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 is developed by IggyLux, a model with 12b 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 MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2?

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 by IggyLux — VRAM 24.4GB, 128K context

Name: MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2
Rating: 3.13 (8 reviews)
Author: IggyLux

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 is an open-source language model by IggyLux. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.4GB, Context: 128K, License: cc-by-4.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Merged Model Adventure Base model:kyx0r/neona-12b Base model:pocketdoc/dans-pers... Conversational Creative Endpoints compatible Fiction Mistral Region:us Roleplaying Rp Safetensors Sharded Story Tensorflow Text Writing

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/IggyLux/MN-VelvetCafe-RP-12B-V2

MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MN VelvetCafe RP 12B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/IggyLux/MN-VelvetCafe-RP-12B-V2
Base Model(s)	PocketDoc/Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12b Neona 12B PocketDoc/Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12b kyx0r/Neona-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	IggyLux
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	1.3 GB: 1-of-14 1.9 GB: 2-of-14 1.9 GB: 3-of-14 1.9 GB: 4-of-14 1.9 GB: 5-of-14 1.9 GB: 6-of-14 1.9 GB: 7-of-14 1.9 GB: 8-of-14 1.9 GB: 9-of-14 1.9 GB: 10-of-14 1.9 GB: 11-of-14 1.9 GB: 12-of-14 1.9 GB: 13-of-14 0.3 GB: 14-of-14
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	cc-by-4.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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