What are the hardware requirements for Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF and how large is it?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 7b 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 Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 3.1GB

Name: Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF
Rating: 1.75 (4 reviews)
Author: TheBloke

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Fine-Tuned, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:2310.06825 Base model:mistralai/mistral-7... Base model:quantized:mistralai... Conversational Finetuned Gguf Instruct Mistral Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGUF

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

mistral

Training Details

Methodology:

Instruction fine-tuning

Model Architecture:

Transformer with Grouped-Query Attention, Sliding-Window Attention, and Byte-fallback BPE tokenizer

Input Output

Input Format:

~~[INST] {prompt} [/INST]

LLM Name	Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGUF
Model Name	Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2
Model Creator	Mistral AI_
Base Model(s)	mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.1 GB 3.8 GB 3.5 GB 3.2 GB 4.1 GB 4.4 GB 4.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.9 GB 7.7 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	apache-2.0

Rank the Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF capabilities

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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGUF.