What are the hardware requirements for Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ?

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ requires approximately 1.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ and how large is it?

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 2.8b 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 6 Phi 2 GPTQ?

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 1.8GB

Name: Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 2.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Base model:dphn/dolphin-2 6-ph... Base model:quantized:dphn/dolp... Conversational Custom code Dataset:ehartford/dolphin Dataset:ehartford/dolphin-code... Dataset:ise-uiuc/magicoder-evo... Dataset:ise-uiuc/magicoder-oss... Dataset:jondurbin/airoboros-2.... Dataset:ldjnr/capybara Dataset:teknium/openhermes En Gptq Instruct Phi-msft Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2_6-phi-2-GPTQ

Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2_6-phi-2-GPTQ
Model Name	Dolphin 2.6 Phi 2
Model Creator	Cognitive Computations
Base Model(s)	Dolphin 2 6 Phi 2 cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2_6-phi-2
Model Size	2.8b
Required VRAM	1.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	phi-msft
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	PhiForCausalLM
License	other
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	CodeGenTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	51200
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu_new

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