What are the hardware requirements for Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF?

Dolphin 2.2 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 Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF and how large is it?

Dolphin 2.2 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 Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF?

Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 29.3GB

Name: Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 29.3GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Merged Model Base model:dphn/dolphin-2.2-70... Base model:quantized:dphn/dolp... Dataset:ehartford/dolphin Dataset:ehartford/samantha-dat... Dataset:ehartford/wizardlm evo... Dataset:jondurbin/airoboros-2.... En Gguf Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2.2-70B-GGUF

Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Dolphin 2.2 70B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2.2-70B-GGUF
Model Name	Dolphin 2.2 70B
Model Creator	Eric Hartford
Base Model(s)	ehartford/dolphin-2.2-70b ehartford/dolphin-2.2-70b
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	29.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-02
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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	llama2

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/dolphin-2.2-70B-GGUF.