What are the hardware requirements for Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF?

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF and how large is it?

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 7b 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 Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF?

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 3.1GB

Name: Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Base model:intel/neural-chat-7... Base model:quantized:intel/neu... Gguf Mistral Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/neural-chat-7B-v3-1-GGUF

Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

mistral

Training Details

Data Sources:

Open-Orca/SlimOrca dataset

Methodology:

Fine-tuning and DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) on Habana Gaudi2

Safety Evaluation

Ethical Considerations:

neural-chat-7b-v3-1 may produce factually incorrect or offensive outputs due to training data limitations.

Input Output

Input Format:

### System: {system_message} ### User: {prompt} ### Assistant:

Output Format:

### System: {system} ### User: {usr} ### Assistant:

LLM Name	Neural Chat 7B V3.1 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/neural-chat-7B-v3-1-GGUF
Model Name	Neural Chat 7B v3-1
Model Creator	Intel
Base Model(s)	Neural Chat 7B V3.1 Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-1
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-06-26
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	3.1 GB 3.8 GB 3.5 GB 3.2 GB 4.1 GB 4.4 GB 4.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.9 GB 7.7 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	apache-2.0

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