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

Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ requires approximately 35.3 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 Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ and how large is it?

Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ 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 GPTQ?

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

Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 35.3GB, 4K context

Name: Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 35.3GB, Context: 4K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

4-bit Base model:elinas/chronos-70b-... Base model:quantized:elinas/ch... Chat Gptq Llama Quantized Region:us Roleplay Safetensors Storywriting

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

Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Areas:

chat, roleplay, storywriting

Additional Notes

This model is based on Llama v2 Base model. It has significantly improved reasoning and logic, with no censorship. It supports context length up to 4096 tokens but will not fit on a consumer GPU in its FP16 version.

LLM Name	Chronos 70B V2 GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-70B-v2-GPTQ
Model Name	Chronos 70B v2
Model Creator	Elinas
Base Model(s)	Chronos 70B V2 elinas/chronos-70b-v2
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	35.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	35.3 GB
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.33.0.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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