What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF?

Nous Hermes Llama2 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 Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF and how large is it?

Nous Hermes Llama2 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 Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF?

Nous Hermes Llama2 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 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

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

Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

The model is considered to have achieved top benchmark positions, including on ARC-c, ARC-e, Hellaswag, and OpenBookQA.

Training Details

Data Sources:

GPTeacher, Wizard LM, Nous Research Instruct Dataset, GPT4-LLM, Unnatural Instructions, Airoboros dataset, Camel-AI's domain expert datasets, CodeAlpaca dataset

Methodology:

Synthetic GPT-4 outputs

Context Length:

4096

Hardware Used:

8x a100 80GB DGX machine

LLM Name	Nous Hermes Llama2 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-GGUF
Model Name	Nous Hermes Llama 2 13B
Model Creator	NousResearch
Base Model(s)	Nous Hermes Llama2 13B NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
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	mit

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