What are the hardware requirements for TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF requires approximately 0.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF and how large is it?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 1.1b 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 TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 0.5GB

Name: TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 1.1b LLM, VRAM: 0.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Base model:quantized:tinyllama... Base model:tinyllama/tinyllama... Conversational Dataset:bigcode/starcoderdata Dataset:cerebras/slimpajama-62... Dataset:openassistant/oasst to... En Gguf Quantized Region:us Tinyllama

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

tinyllama

Training Details

Data Sources:

cerebras/SlimPajama-627B, bigcode/starcoderdata, OpenAssistant/oasst_top1_2023-08-25

Methodology:

Pretrained using 3 trillion tokens. Fine-tuned with Zephyr's training recipe on UltraChat and further aligned with openbmb/UltraFeedback using DPOTrainer.

Hardware Used:

16 A100-40G GPUs

Model Architecture:

Same architecture and tokenizer as Llama 2

Input Output

Input Format:

<|system|> {system_message}~~ <|user|> {prompt}~~ <|assistant|>

Release Notes

Version:

v1.0

Notes:

Initial release based on fine-tuning with Zephyr's training recipe.

LLM Name	TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V1.0 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF
Model Name	Tinyllama 1.1B Chat v1.0
Model Creator	TinyLlama
Base Model(s)	TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
Model Size	1.1b
Required VRAM	0.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	tinyllama
Model Files	0.5 GB 0.6 GB 0.6 GB 0.5 GB 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 0.6 GB 0.8 GB 0.8 GB 0.8 GB 0.9 GB 1.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	apache-2.0

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