What are the hardware requirements for Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF?

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF requires approximately 1.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF and how large is it?

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 3b 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 Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF?

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 1.2GB

Name: Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.2GB, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2305.18290 Base model:quantized:stability... Base model:stabilityai/stablel... Conversational Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultracha... Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultrafee... Dataset:intel/orca dpo pairs Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Gguf Instruct Quantized Region:us Stablelm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stablelm-zephyr-3b-GGUF

Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stablelm-zephyr-3b-GGUF
Model Name	StableLM Zephyr 3B
Model Creator	Stability AI
Base Model(s)	Stablelm Zephyr 3B stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	stablelm
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.2 GB 1.5 GB 1.4 GB 1.2 GB 1.6 GB 1.7 GB 1.6 GB 1.9 GB 2.0 GB 1.9 GB 2.3 GB 3.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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