What are the hardware requirements for Snowpiercer 15B V2?

Snowpiercer 15B V2 requires approximately 29.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Snowpiercer 15B V2 and how large is it?

Snowpiercer 15B V2 is developed by TheDrummer, a model with 15b 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 Snowpiercer 15B V2?

Snowpiercer 15B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Snowpiercer 15B V2 by TheDrummer — VRAM 29.9GB, 64K context

Name: Snowpiercer 15B V2
Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Author: TheDrummer

Snowpiercer 15B V2 is an open-source language model by TheDrummer. Features: 15b LLM, VRAM: 29.9GB, Context: 64K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:sillytilly... Base model:sillytilly/servicen... Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheDrummer/Snowpiercer-15B-v2

Snowpiercer 15B V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Snowpiercer 15B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheDrummer/Snowpiercer-15B-v2
Base Model(s)	...el Nemotron 15B Thinker Chatml SillyTilly/ServiceNow-AI-Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker-Chatml
Model Size	15b
Required VRAM	29.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	TheDrummer
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-7 4.9 GB: 2-of-7 4.9 GB: 3-of-7 4.9 GB: 4-of-7 4.9 GB: 5-of-7 4.1 GB: 6-of-7 1.3 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Snowpiercer 15B V2

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker	64K / 29.9 GB	665	127
Big Alice 28B V1	64K / 57.2 GB	15	29
Snowpiercer 15B V1	64K / 29.9 GB	15	26
Sol Reaver 15B Instruct	64K / 29.9 GB	17	15
...el Nemotron 15B Thinker Chatml	64K / 29.9 GB	8	10
Nemotron 15B Thinker Instruct	64K / 29.9 GB	10	0
Mistral 15B Instruct V0.1	32K / 28.4 GB	79	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheDrummer/Snowpiercer-15B-v2.