What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ?

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ requires approximately 19.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ and how large is it?

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 34b 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 Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ?

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 19.3GB, 4K context

Name: Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Awq Base model:nousresearch/nous-h... Base model:quantized:nousresea... Chatml Conversational Distillation En Finetuned Gpt4 Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B-AWQ

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B-AWQ
Model Name	Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B
Model Creator	NousResearch
Base Model(s)	Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B
Model Size	34b
Required VRAM	19.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-04
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 9.3 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	float16

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