What are the hardware requirements for CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML?

CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML requires approximately 5.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML and how large is it?

CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML 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 Instruct GGML?

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

CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 5.7GB

Name: CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML
Author: TheBloke

CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.7GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Arxiv:2308.12950 Base model:codellama/codellama... Base model:finetune:codellama/... Code Codegen Ggml Instruct Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us

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

CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text-generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

code synthesis, code understanding, instruction following, safer deployment for code assistant and generation

Additional Notes

NOTE: GGML format has now been superseded by GGUF, and GGML models are deprecated in 'llama.cpp'.

Training Details

Hardware Used:

A100-80GB

Model Architecture:

auto-regressive transformer architecture

LLM Name	CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-13B-Instruct-GGML
Model Name	CodeLlama 13B Instruct
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	CodeLlama 13B Instruct Hf codellama/CodeLlama-13b-Instruct-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.7 GB 7.1 GB 6.5 GB 5.9 GB 7.3 GB 8.1 GB 8.1 GB 7.6 GB 8.9 GB 9.8 GB 9.4 GB 9.2 GB 10.8 GB 13.8 GB
Supported Languages	code
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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Best Alternatives to CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGML

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Codellama 7B Instruct GGUF	0K / 2.8 GB	166	1
Codellama 13B Instruct GGUF	0K / 13.8 GB	28	0
CodeLlama 13B Instruct GGUF	0K / 5.4 GB	3987	132
...fast Codellama 13B Instruct Hf	0K / 13 GB	3	1

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