What are the hardware requirements for Llama 2 13B Hf?

Llama 2 13B 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 Llama 2 13B Hf and how large is it?

Llama 2 13B Hf is developed by NousResearch, 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 Llama 2 13B Hf?

Llama 2 13B Hf is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 2 13B Hf by NousResearch — VRAM 26GB, 4K context

Name: Llama 2 13B Hf
Author: NousResearch

Llama 2 13B Hf is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Deploy:azure En Facebook Llama Llama2 Meta Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Llama-2-13b-hf

Llama 2 13B Hf Parameters and Internals

Model Type

generative, text

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

dialogue, natural language generation

Limitations:

testing conducted in English only, potential inaccurate or biased responses

Considerations:

Perform safety testing and tuning tailored to applications of the model.

Training Details

Data Sources:

publicly available online data

Data Volume:

2 trillion tokens

Methodology:

auto-regressive language model

Hardware Used:

Meta's Research Super Cluster, A100-80GB GPUs

Model Architecture:

transformer architecture, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback

Input Output

Input Format:

text

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

Performance Tips:

Follow specific formatting, including INST, <>, BOS, EOS for chat versions.

LLM Name	Llama 2 13B Hf
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Llama-2-13b-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3 10.0 GB: 1-of-6 9.9 GB: 2-of-6 9.9 GB: 3-of-6 9.9 GB: 4-of-6 9.9 GB: 5-of-6 2.5 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
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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Quantized Models of the Llama 2 13B Hf

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Model1	0	16	13 GB
...V1.1 Mistral 7B 5.0bpw H6 EXL2	1	6	4 GB

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