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

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF requires approximately 14.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF 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 GGUF?

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF 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 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 14.6GB

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

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 14.6GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Base model:nousresearch/nous-h... Base model:quantized:nousresea... Chatml Conversational Distillation En Finetuned Gguf Gpt4 Instruct Quantized Region:us Synthetic data Yi

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

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B-GGUF
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	14.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	yi
Model Files	14.6 GB 18.1 GB 16.6 GB 15.0 GB 19.5 GB 20.7 GB 19.5 GB 23.7 GB 24.3 GB 23.7 GB 28.2 GB 36.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	apache-2.0

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