What are the hardware requirements for LLaMa 65B GGML?

LLaMa 65B GGML requires approximately 27.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LLaMa 65B GGML and how large is it?

LLaMa 65B GGML is developed by TheBloke, a model with 65b 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 65B GGML?

LLaMa 65B GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LLaMa 65B GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 27.3GB

Name: LLaMa 65B GGML
Author: TheBloke

LLaMa 65B GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 65b LLM, VRAM: 27.3GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.07.

Ggml Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMa-65B-GGML

LLaMa 65B GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

The model is available in GGML format for CPU + GPU inference using llama.cpp and several libraries. Various quantization methods are used to optimize the model for performance and resource efficiency.

LLM Name	LLaMa 65B GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMa-65B-GGML
Model Size	65b
Required VRAM	27.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	27.3 GB 34.5 GB 31.4 GB 28.1 GB 36.7 GB 40.8 GB 39.3 GB 36.7 GB 44.9 GB 49.0 GB 46.2 GB 44.9 GB
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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