What are the hardware requirements for Chronos 70B V2 GGUF?

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF requires approximately 29.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Chronos 70B V2 GGUF and how large is it?

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 70b 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 Chronos 70B V2 GGUF?

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 29.3GB

Name: Chronos 70B V2 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 29.3GB, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Base model:elinas/chronos-70b-... Base model:quantized:elinas/ch... Chat Gguf Llama Quantized Region:us Roleplay Storywriting

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-70B-v2-GGUF

Chronos 70B V2 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

The model does not have any form of censorship and is primarily focused on chat, roleplay, and storywriting, with significantly improved reasoning and logic. It supports context length up to 4096 tokens.

Input Output

Input Format:

Alpaca formatting: '### Instruction: Your instruction or question here. ### Response:'

Output Format:

Response following the instruction format.

Performance Tips:

Using Alpaca formatting improves performance. If using KoboldCPP, the flag '--unbantokens' may significantly enhance performance.

LLM Name	Chronos 70B V2 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-70B-v2-GGUF
Model Name	Chronos 70B v2
Model Creator	Elinas
Base Model(s)	Chronos 70B V2 elinas/chronos-70b-v2
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	29.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	29.3 GB 36.1 GB 33.2 GB 29.9 GB 38.9 GB 41.4 GB 39.1 GB 47.5 GB 48.8 GB 47.5 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	cc-by-nc-4.0

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