What are the hardware requirements for FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct requires approximately 6.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct and how large is it?

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is developed by FuseAI, a model with 3b 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 FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct by FuseAI — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Author: FuseAI

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by FuseAI. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Arxiv:2408.07990 Arxiv:2412.03187 Dataset:fuseai/fusechat-3.0-dp... Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/FuseAI/FuseChat-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	FuseChat Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/FuseAI/FuseChat-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	FuseAI
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than FuseAI/FuseChat-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.