What are the hardware requirements for Noodles Merge 12B?

Noodles Merge 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Noodles Merge 12B and how large is it?

Noodles Merge 12B is developed by hardlyworking, 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 Noodles Merge 12B?

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

Noodles Merge 12B by hardlyworking — VRAM 24.5GB

Name: Noodles Merge 12B
Author: hardlyworking

Noodles Merge 12B is an open-source language model by hardlyworking. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Merged Model Base model:hardlyworking/broth... Base model:hardlyworking/noodl... Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/hardlyworking/Noodles-Merge-12B

Noodles Merge 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Noodles Merge 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/hardlyworking/Noodles-Merge-12B
Base Model(s)	Broth 12B Noodles 12B hardlyworking/Broth-12B hardlyworking/Noodles-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-09
Maintainer	hardlyworking
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	AutoModelForCausalLM
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072

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Ramen 12B	0K / 24.5 GB	9	0
Broth 12B	0K / 24.5 GB	11	0
Ultra Instruct 12B	0K / 24.5 GB	24	4
Orthrus 12B V0.8	0K / 24.5 GB	4	4
Polyglot Ko 12B Qlora	0K / 25.9 GB	7	0
WorldBuilder 12B	0K / 24.5 GB	6	0
CleverBoi Nemo 12B V2	0K / 0.2 GB	340	4

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