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

Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF 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 GGUF?

Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF 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 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

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

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

Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Commercial, Research

Considerations:

Before deploying, developers should perform safety testing tailored to their specific applications.

Training Details

Data Sources:

Publicly available online data

Data Volume:

2 trillion tokens

Methodology:

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

Context Length:

4096

Hardware Used:

A100-80GB GPUs

Model Architecture:

Auto-regressive language model using an optimized transformer architecture

Input Output

Input Format:

Expected input format: Use the [INST] <> {prompt}[/INST] structure for prompts.

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Generates text outputs

Performance Tips:

Use the prompt structure optimally to get the best results.

LLM Name	Llama 2 13B Chat GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGUF
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	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.4 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.4 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 9.0 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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