What are the hardware requirements for Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ?

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ requires approximately 7.5 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 Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ and how large is it?

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ?

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ by TheBloke — VRAM 7.5GB, 2K context

Name: Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ
Author: TheBloke

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 7.5GB, Context: 2K, License: cc, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.07.

4-bit Dataset:vmware/open-instruct-v... En Gptq Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/open-llama-13b-open-instruct-GPTQ

Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

The model was trained using the Alpaca prompt template, and a note mentions potential issues with encoding when the tokenizer's fast mode is enabled.

Training Details

Data Sources:

VMware/open-instruct-v1-oasst-dolly-hhrlhf

LLM Name	Open Llama 13B Open Instruct GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/open-llama-13b-open-instruct-GPTQ
Base Model(s)	Open Llama 13B Open Instruct VMware/open-llama-13b-open-instruct
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	7.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	7.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.28.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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