What are the hardware requirements for Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ?

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ requires approximately 7.2 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 Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ and how large is it?

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ is developed by TheBloke, 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 Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ?

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 7.2GB, 4K context

Name: Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 7.2GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

4-bit Awq Base model:heralax/cat-0.5 Base model:quantized:heralax/c... Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Cat-13B-0.5-AWQ

Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Areas:

biology, clinical tasks, roleplay, entertainment

Additional Notes

Model aims to excel in biology and clinical tasks while maintaining performance in roleplay and entertainment scenarios.

Training Details

Data Sources:

chatDoctor, aiorboros, bluemoonrp

Data Volume:

100k rows

Methodology:

fine-tuned training on clinical data, roleplay, and assistant responses; conditioned overwrite applied

Input Output

Input Format:

None

LLM Name	Cat 13B 0.5 AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Cat-13B-0.5-AWQ
Model Name	Cat 13B 0.5
Model Creator	Evan Armstrong
Base Model(s)	Heralax/Cat-0.5 Heralax/Cat-0.5
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	7.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	7.2 GB
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/Cat-13B-0.5-AWQ.