What are the hardware requirements for Guanaco 65B GPTQ?

Guanaco 65B GPTQ requires approximately 33.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Guanaco 65B GPTQ and how large is it?

Guanaco 65B GPTQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 65b 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 Guanaco 65B GPTQ?

Guanaco 65B GPTQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Guanaco 65B GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 33.5GB, 2K context

Name: Guanaco 65B GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Guanaco 65B GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 65b LLM, VRAM: 33.5GB, Context: 2K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

4-bit Base model:quantized:timdettme... Base model:timdettmers/guanaco... Gptq Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GPTQ

Guanaco 65B GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Input Output

Input Format:

### Human: {prompt} ### Assistant:

LLM Name	Guanaco 65B GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GPTQ
Model Name	Guanaco 65B
Model Creator	Tim Dettmers
Base Model(s)	Guanaco 65B timdettmers/guanaco-65b
Model Size	65b
Required VRAM	33.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	33.5 GB
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

Rank the Guanaco 65B GPTQ capabilities

Have you tried this model? Rate its performance — this feedback helps the ML community find the right model for their needs.

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

Quantized Models of the Guanaco 65B GPTQ

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Medguanaco 65B GPTQ	5	8	33 GB

Best Alternatives to Guanaco 65B GPTQ

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...en Instruct Human Mix 65B GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	11	0
Airoboros 65B Gpt4 1.4 GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	12	13
Airoboros 65B Gpt4 1.3 GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	5	3
Airoboros 65B Gpt4 1.2 GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	41	11
Dromedary 65B Lora GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	6	6
Gpt4 Alpaca Lora Mlp 65B GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	49	14
Airoboros 65B GPT4 2.0 GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	8	3
Airoboros 65B GPT4 M2.0 GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	3	2
...stage Llama1 65B Instruct GPTQ	2K / 34.7 GB	9	3
...Research Oasst1 Llama 65B GPTQ	2K / 33.5 GB	11	5

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GPTQ.