What are the hardware requirements for H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf?

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf requires approximately 0.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf and how large is it?

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf is developed by aghorbani, a model with 1.8b 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 H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf?

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf by aghorbani — VRAM 0.7GB

Name: H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf
Author: aghorbani

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf is an open-source language model by aghorbani. Features: 1.8b LLM, VRAM: 0.7GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Base model:h2oai/h2o-danube2-1... Base model:quantized:h2oai/h2o... Conversational En Gguf Gpt Mistral Q2 Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aghorbani/h2o-danube2-1.8b-chat-gguf

H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, llm, gpt, large language model

Additional Notes

This repository includes GGUF format model files for usage.

Supported Languages

English (High)

LLM Name	H2o Danube2 1.8B Chat Gguf
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aghorbani/h2o-danube2-1.8b-chat-gguf
Base Model(s)	h2oai/h2o-danube2-1.8b-chat h2oai/h2o-danube2-1.8b-chat
Model Size	1.8b
Required VRAM	0.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	aghorbani
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	0.7 GB 0.9 GB 1.1 GB 1.3 GB 1.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	apache-2.0

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