What are the hardware requirements for Stheno L2 13B GGML?

Stheno L2 13B GGML requires approximately 5.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stheno L2 13B GGML and how large is it?

Stheno L2 13B GGML 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 Stheno L2 13B GGML?

Stheno L2 13B GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Stheno L2 13B GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 5.5GB

Name: Stheno L2 13B GGML
Author: TheBloke

Stheno L2 13B GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.5GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Base model:finetune:sao10k/sth... Base model:sao10k/stheno-l2-13... En Ggml Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Stheno-L2-13B-GGML

Stheno L2 13B GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama, text generation

Additional Notes

An experimental merging of several models using two methods, Ties-Merge and BlockMerge_Gradient. It plans to be the base of Stheno with ERP-Based LORA merged in the future

LLM Name	Stheno L2 13B GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Stheno-L2-13B-GGML
Model Name	Stheno L2 13B
Model Creator	Sao10K
Base Model(s)	Stheno L2 13B Sao10K/Stheno-L2-13B
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-07
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.5 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.4 GB 8.2 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 9.0 GB 9.8 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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