What are the hardware requirements for LLaMA 30B AWQ?

LLaMA 30B AWQ requires approximately 17.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LLaMA 30B AWQ and how large is it?

LLaMA 30B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 30b 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 LLaMA 30B AWQ?

LLaMA 30B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LLaMA 30B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 17.6GB

Name: LLaMA 30B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

LLaMA 30B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

4-bit Awq Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMA-30b-AWQ

LLaMA 30B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

AWQ is an efficient, accurate and blazing-fast low-bit weight quantization method, supporting 4-bit quantization. Compared to GPTQ, it offers faster Transformers-based inference.

Input Output

Input Format:

{prompt}

LLM Name	LLaMA 30B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMA-30b-AWQ
Model Name	LLaMA 33B
Model Creator	Meta
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 7.6 GB: 2-of-2
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.28.0.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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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/LLaMA-30b-AWQ.