What are the hardware requirements for Athena V1 GGUF?

Athena V1 GGUF requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Athena V1 GGUF and how large is it?

Athena V1 GGUF is developed by TheBloke. 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 Athena V1 GGUF?

Athena V1 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Athena V1 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: Athena V1 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Athena V1 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Base model:ikaridev/athena-v1 Base model:quantized:ikaridev/... Gguf Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Athena-v1-GGUF

Athena V1 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

Experimental mythomax based ERP model. Use Alpaca format, merged models: mythomax, puddlejumper, airoboros, chronos beluga.

Input Output

Input Format:

Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: {prompt} ### Response:

LLM Name	Athena V1 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Athena-v1-GGUF
Model Name	Athena v1
Model Creator	IkariDev
Base Model(s)	Athena V1 IkariDev/Athena-v1
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.4 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.4 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 9.0 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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