What are the hardware requirements for Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K?

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K requires approximately 30 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K and how large is it?

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K is developed by Darkknight535, a model with 15b 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 Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K?

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K by Darkknight535 — VRAM 30GB, 64K context

Name: Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K
Author: Darkknight535

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K is an open-source language model by Darkknight535. Features: 15b LLM, VRAM: 30GB, Context: 64K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Autotrain compatible Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Not-for-all-audiences Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Darkknight535/Moonlight-L3-15B-v2-64k

Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K Parameters and Internals

Training Details

Data Sources:

different RP datasheets, dark nsfw datasheets

Methodology:

Fine-tuning on different RP datasheets and some dark nsfw datasheets.

Context Length:

64000

Model Architecture:

Llama 3 architecture

LLM Name	Moonlight L3 15B V2 64K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Darkknight535/Moonlight-L3-15B-v2-64k
Model Size	15b
Required VRAM	30 GB
Updated	2025-10-13
Maintainer	Darkknight535
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 5.0 GB: 2-of-7 4.9 GB: 3-of-7 4.9 GB: 4-of-7 5.0 GB: 5-of-7 4.9 GB: 6-of-7 0.3 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.45.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Nsfw 4dot1 15B Hopefully Right	128K / 30.1 GB	7	0
Moonlight L3 15B V2.5 64K	64K / 30 GB	17	6
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OpenCrystal 15B L3 V2	8K / 30 GB	3	6
L3 Aethora 15B	8K / 30.1 GB	728	36

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Darkknight535/Moonlight-L3-15B-v2-64k.