What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF?

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF requires approximately 29.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF and how large is it?

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 70b 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 Llama2 70B GGUF?

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 29.3GB

Name: Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 29.3GB, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Base model:nousresearch/nous-h... Base model:quantized:nousresea... Distillation En Gguf Llama Llama2 Quantized Region:us Self-instruct Synthetic instruction

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-70B-GGUF

Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

self-instruct, distillation, synthetic instruction

Additional Notes

Fine-tuned by Nous Research, with Teknium and Emozilla leading the fine tuning process.

Training Details

Methodology:

Trained almost entirely on synthetic GPT-4 outputs

Context Length:

4096

Hardware Used:

8x H100 80GB machine

Input Output

Input Format:

### Instruction: {prompt} ### Response:

LLM Name	Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-70B-GGUF
Model Name	Nous Hermes Llama2 70B
Model Creator	NousResearch
Base Model(s)	Nous Hermes Llama2 70B NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-70b
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	29.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	29.3 GB 36.1 GB 33.2 GB 29.9 GB 38.9 GB 41.4 GB 39.1 GB 47.5 GB 48.8 GB 47.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	mit

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