🛠️Unsloth Requirements

Here are Unsloth's requirements including system and GPU VRAM requirements.

System Requirements

• Operating System: Works on Linux and Windows via WSL

• Supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018+. Minimum CUDA Capability 7.0 (V100, T4, Titan V, RTX 20, 30, 40x, A100, H100, L40 etc) Check your GPU! GTX 1070, 1080 works, but is slow.

• Your device must have xformers, torch, BitsandBytes and triton support.

• Unsloth only works if you have a NVIDIA GPU. Make sure you also have disk space to train & save your model

Fine-tuning VRAM requirements:

How much GPU memory do I need for LLM fine-tuning using Unsloth?

Check this table for VRAM requirements sorted by model parameters and fine-tuning method. QLoRA uses 4-bit, LoRA uses 16-bit.

Model parameters	QLoRA 4-bit VRAM	LoRA 16-bit VRAM
3B	2 GB	7 GB
7B	4.5 GB	16 GB
8B	5 GB	19 GB
9B	5.5 GB	21 GB
11B	6.5 GB	26 GB
14B	8.5 GB	33 GB
27B	16GB	64GB
32B	19 GB	76 GB
40B	24GB	96GB
70B	41 GB	164 GB
81B	48GB	192GB
405B	237 GB	950 GB