What are the hardware requirements for CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF?

CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF requires approximately 2.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF 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 Instruct GGUF?

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

CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 2.8GB

Name: CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF
Author: TheBloke

CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 2.8GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2308.12950 Code Codegen Gguf Instruct Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us

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

CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Limitations:

Use in languages other than English., Use in violation of laws or in prohibited ways.

Training Details

Hardware Used:

A100-80GB

Model Architecture:

optimized transformer architecture

Input Output

Input Format:

Models input text only.

Output Format:

Models generate text only.

LLM Name	CodeLlama 7B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-7B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Name	CodeLlama 7B Instruct
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	codellama/CodeLlama-7b-instruct-hf codellama/CodeLlama-7b-instruct-hf
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	2.8 GB
Updated	2026-06-24
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.8 GB 3.6 GB 3.3 GB 3.0 GB 3.8 GB 4.1 GB 3.9 GB 4.7 GB 4.8 GB 4.7 GB 5.5 GB 7.2 GB
Supported Languages	code
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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