What are the hardware requirements for Synthia 70B GGML?

Synthia 70B GGML requires approximately 28.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Synthia 70B GGML and how large is it?

Synthia 70B GGML 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 Synthia 70B GGML?

Synthia 70B GGML is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Synthia 70B GGML by TheBloke — VRAM 28.6GB

Name: Synthia 70B GGML
Author: TheBloke

Synthia 70B GGML is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 28.6GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Arxiv:2302.13971 Arxiv:2306.02707 Base model:finetune:migtissera... Base model:migtissera/synthia-... En Ggml Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Synthia-70B-GGML

Synthia 70B GGML Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This model has been fine-tuned for instruction following as well as having long-form conversations.

LLM Name	Synthia 70B GGML
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Synthia-70B-GGML
Model Name	Synthia 70B
Model Creator	Migel Tissera
Base Model(s)	Synthia 70B migtissera/Synthia-70B
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	28.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	28.6 GB 36.1 GB 33.0 GB 29.7 GB 38.9 GB 43.2 GB 41.4 GB 38.9 GB 47.5 GB 48.8 GB 47.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGML Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	ggml
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Synthia 70B V1.1 GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	3	4
...boros L2 70B 2.1 Creative GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	4	3
...iction.live Kimiko V2 70B GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	8	2
Llama 2 70B Chat GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	10	161
Lemur 70B Chat V1 GGML	0K / 29 GB	4	3
Model 007 70B GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	6	1
Airoboros L2 70B 2.1 GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	6	2
Nous Hermes Llama2 70B GGML	0K / 29 GB	4	13
Llama 2 70B Orca 200K GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	7	3
Genz 70B GGML	0K / 28.6 GB	6	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/Synthia-70B-GGML.