What are the hardware requirements for Llava 1.5 7B 8bit?

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit requires approximately 7.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llava 1.5 7B 8bit and how large is it?

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 7b 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 Llava 1.5 7B 8bit?

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 7.5GB

Name: Llava 1.5 7B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 7.5GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

8bit Conversational Dataset:liuhaotian/llava-instr... En Image-text-to-text Instruct Llava Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-1.5-7b-8bit

Llava 1.5 7B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llava 1.5 7B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-1.5-7b-8bit
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	7.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llava
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 2.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlavaForConditionalGeneration
License	llama2
Transformers Version	4.36.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	32064
Torch Data Type	float16

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