What are the hardware requirements for CodeLlama 7B AWQ?

CodeLlama 7B AWQ requires approximately 3.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed CodeLlama 7B AWQ and how large is it?

CodeLlama 7B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 7b 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 7B AWQ?

CodeLlama 7B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

CodeLlama 7B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 3.9GB, 16K context

Name: CodeLlama 7B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

CodeLlama 7B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 3.9GB, Context: 16K, License: llama2, Quantized, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2308.12950 4-bit Awq Base model:codellama/codellama... Base model:quantized:codellama... Code Codegen Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-7B-AWQ

CodeLlama 7B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

code synthesis, text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

commercial, research

Applications:

code assistant, code generation

Primary Use Cases:

code synthesis, understanding tasks

Limitations:

Not tested in languages other than English

Additional Notes

Trained with Meta's Research Super Cluster, emission offset by Meta’s sustainability program. Compatible with AutoAWQ and vLLM. Not compatible with Huggingface Text Generation Inference (TGI) yet.

Supported Languages

English (fully supported)

Training Details

Methodology:

Training libraries and RSC

Hardware Used:

A100-80GB

Model Architecture:

Optimized transformer architecture

Input Output

Input Format:

text prompts

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	CodeLlama 7B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-7B-AWQ
Model Name	CodeLlama 7B
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	CodeLlama 7B Hf codellama/CodeLlama-7b-hf
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	3.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.9 GB
Supported Languages	code
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.33.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	CodeLlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32016
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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