Branch	Bits	lm_head bits	VRAM (4k)	VRAM (16k)	VRAM (32k)	Description
8_0	8.0	8.0	11.9 GB	13.3 GB	15.3 GB	Maximum quality that ExLlamaV2 can produce, near unquantized performance.
6_5	6.5	8.0	10.3 GB	11.7 GB	13.7 GB	Very similar to 8.0, good tradeoff of size vs performance, recommended.
5_0	5.0	6.0	8.3 GB	9.7 GB	11.7 GB	Slightly lower quality vs 6.5, but usable on 8GB cards.
4_25	4.25	6.0	7.4 GB	8.6 GB	10.6 GB	GPTQ equivalent bits per weight, slightly higher quality.
3_5	3.5	6.0	6.4 GB	7.8 GB	9.8 GB	Lower quality, only use if you have to.

Download instructions

With git:

git clone --single-branch --branch 4_0 https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2

With huggingface hub (credit to TheBloke for instructions):

pip3 install huggingface-hub

To download the main (only useful if you only care about measurement.json) branch to a folder called Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2:

shell

mkdir Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2
huggingface-cli download bartowski/Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2 --local-dir Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2 --local-dir-use-symlinks False

To download from a different branch, add the --revision parameter:

shell

mkdir Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2
huggingface-cli download bartowski/Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2 --revision 4_0 --local-dir Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B-exl2 --local-dir-use-symlinks False