What are the hardware requirements for Llama 2 13B Chat GGML?

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML requires approximately 5.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 2 13B Chat GGML and how large is it?

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 2 13B Chat GGML?

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 5.5GB

Name: Llama 2 13B Chat GGML
Author: TheBloke

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.5GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2307.09288 Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-2-... En Facebook Ggml Llama Llama2 Meta Pytorch Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML Benchmarks

LLME Score: 0.11033

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Llama 2 13B Chat GGML (TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML)

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Llama 2 13B Chat GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Areas:

commercial, research

Applications:

assistant-like chat, natural language generation tasks

Primary Use Cases:

optimized for dialogue use cases

Limitations:

Inaccurate, biased or other objectionable responses possible; testing primarily in English

Considerations:

Perform safety testing and tuning tailored to specific applications

Training Details

Data Sources:

publicly available online data

Data Volume:

2.0 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF)

Context Length:

4000

Hardware Used:

Meta's Research Super Cluster, A100-80GB GPUs

Model Architecture:

Optimized transformer architecture

Input Output

Input Format:

Text input only

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Text output only

Performance Tips:

A specific formatting, including `INST`, `<>`, `BOS`, and `EOS` tokens, is required for optimal performance

LLM Name	Llama 2 13B Chat GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML
Model Name	Llama 2 13B Chat
Model Creator	Meta Llama 2
Base Model(s)	Llama 2 13B Chat Hf meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.5 GB
Updated	2026-04-23
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.5 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.3 GB 8.1 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 8.9 GB 9.8 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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