bge-base-en-v1.5 vs vram-16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
8.3 M
mit · commercial OK
unslothai · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
432 K

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-base-en-v1.5 vram-16
Parameters 110 M —
Architecture BertModel LlamaModel
Context length 512 —
Licence mit —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 8,332,043 432,288
Downloads all time 586.3 M 19.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-11 2024-07-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.2 M390 K
bge-base-en-v1.5 vram-16

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

vram-16 · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-base-en-v1.5 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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