What are the hardware requirements for OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3?

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 requires approximately 30 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 and how large is it?

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 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 OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3?

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 by Darkknight535 — VRAM 30GB, 8K context

Name: OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3
Author: Darkknight535

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 is an open-source language model by Darkknight535. Features: 15b LLM, VRAM: 30GB, Context: 8K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Darkknight535/OpenCrystal-15B-L3-v3

OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Text Generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Roleplay, Text and Image prompt generation

Additional Notes

Automatically speaks as other NPCs. Coherent responses and creative output.

Training Details

Methodology:

Fine-tuning and merging with the base model.

Model Architecture:

Enhanced version of OpenCrystal v1 with Llama-3-instruct base.

Input Output

Input Format:

Instruct Template Default: llama3 with instruct and context preset.

Performance Tips:

Use example messages for multiturn conversations.

LLM Name	OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Darkknight535/OpenCrystal-15B-L3-v3
Model Size	15b
Required VRAM	30 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	Darkknight535
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.44.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to OpenCrystal 15B L3 V3

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Hamanasu 15B Instruct	16K / 29.4 GB	473	9
L3 Aethora 15B V2	8K / 30.1 GB	22	42
Meta Llama 3 15B Instruct	8K / 23.9 GB	3	1
OpenCrystal L3 15B V2.1	8K / 30 GB	3	5
OpenCrystal 15B L3 V2	8K / 30 GB	3	6
Llama 3 15B Instruct Ft V2	8K / 30.1 GB	13	4
Llama 3 15B Instruct Zeroed Ft	8K / 30.1 GB	19	2
L3 Aethora 15B V2	8K / 30.1 GB	29	44
LLaMa 3 Stheno V3.2 15B	8K / 30 GB	17	5
L3 NA Aethora 15B	8K / 30.1 GB	7	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Darkknight535/OpenCrystal-15B-L3-v3.