What are the hardware requirements for Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML?

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML requires approximately 29 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML and how large is it?

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML is developed by TheBloke, a model with 70b 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 Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML?

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 29GB

Name: Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML
Author: TheBloke

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 29GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Base model:finetune:openlemur/... Base model:openlemur/lemur-70b... Code En Ggml Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Lemur-70B-Chat-v1-GGML

Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Lemur-70B-Chat-v1-GGML
Model Name	Lemur 70B Chat v1
Model Creator	OpenLemur
Base Model(s)	Lemur 70B Chat V1 OpenLemur/lemur-70b-chat-v1
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	29 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	29.0 GB 36.5 GB 33.4 GB 30.1 GB 38.8 GB 43.1 GB 41.7 GB 39.2 GB 47.4 GB 49.0 GB 47.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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