What are the hardware requirements for Shadow Crystal 12B?

Shadow Crystal 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Shadow Crystal 12B and how large is it?

Shadow Crystal 12B is developed by Vortex5, a model with 12b 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 Shadow Crystal 12B?

Shadow Crystal 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Shadow Crystal 12B by Vortex5 — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Shadow Crystal 12B
Author: Vortex5

Shadow Crystal 12B is an open-source language model by Vortex5. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Merged Model Base model:vortex5/crystal-oce... Base model:vortex5/moonlit-sha... Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Shadow-Crystal-12B

Shadow Crystal 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Shadow Crystal 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Shadow-Crystal-12B
Base Model(s)	Moonlit Shadow 12B Crystal Ocean 12B Vortex5/Moonlit-Shadow-12B Vortex5/Crystal-Ocean-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	Vortex5
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.55.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131075
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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