What are the hardware requirements for CodeLlama 13B GGUF?

CodeLlama 13B 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 CodeLlama 13B GGUF and how large is it?

CodeLlama 13B GGUF 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 CodeLlama 13B GGUF?

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

CodeLlama 13B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: CodeLlama 13B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

CodeLlama 13B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2308.12950 Base model:codellama/codellama... Base model:quantized:codellama... Code Codegen Gguf Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-13B-GGUF

CodeLlama 13B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Limitations:

Testing conducted only in English, Potential to produce inaccurate or objectionable responses

Considerations:

Developers should perform safety testing before deploying applications.

Training Details

Model Architecture:

An auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture.

LLM Name	CodeLlama 13B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-13B-GGUF
Model Name	CodeLlama 13B
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	CodeLlama 13B Hf codellama/CodeLlama-13b-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
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
Supported Languages	code
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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