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llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored

nkpz/llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored

llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored at Q2_K is exactly 8,114,369,824 bytes (7.56 GiB / 8.11 GB) — an effective 2.974 bits per weight, not the nominal 2. Its KV cache at 32K is 32.50 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
21.8B
Architecture
llama
40 layers
Context
2,048
native (config.json)
License
other

Shipped quantizations

● exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSize●Exact bytes●Effective bpw●Tensors●Publisher
Q2_K7.56 GiB8,114,369,8242.974—tensorblock
Q3_K_M9.88 GiB10,610,329,8883.889—tensorblock

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)●Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0964.06 GiB4.06 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
8,1928.13 GiB8.13 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
16,38416.25 GiB16.25 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
32,76832.50 GiB32.50 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
65,53665.00 GiB65.00 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
131,072130.00 GiB130.00 GiB—40 / 0 / 0

Compare with

same modality, comparable size
vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instructvs Qwen3.6-27Bvs Qwen3.8-27Bvs gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedvs gemma-4-E4B-itvs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507All alternatives →Will it fit on my card? →

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep
By VRAM:8GB12GB16GB24GB32GB48GB
Radeon RX 6500 XT 4GBGeForce RTX 3050 6GBGeForce RTX 5050 8GBGeForce RTX 3080 10GBGeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GBGeForce RTX 5070 12GBGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBApple M3 Pro 18GBGeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GBGeForce RTX 5090 D V2 24GBGeForce RTX 5090 D 32GBApple M5 Max 36GBApple M5 Pro 48GBApple M5 Max 64GBApple M3 Ultra 96GBApple M5 Max 128GBApple M2 Ultra 192GBApple M3 Ultra 256GBApple M3 Ultra 512GB

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts Q2_K at roughly 11.43 GiB. The real file is 7.56 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
40
Attention heads
52
KV heads
52
Head dim
128
Hidden size
6656
Vocab
32,000
Sliding window
none
SWA period
—
MLA
no
Experts
—
Experts per token
—
use_sliding_window
—

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored need?
Q2_K is exactly 8,114,369,824 bytes (7.56 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored's KV cache?
32.50 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Which quantization of llama2-22b-chat-wizard-uncensored should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.