What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 3B Coding?

Llama 3.2 3B Coding 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 Llama 3.2 3B Coding and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B Coding is developed by MergeBench, 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 Llama 3.2 3B Coding?

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

Llama 3.2 3B Coding by MergeBench — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B Coding
Author: MergeBench

Llama 3.2 3B Coding is an open-source language model by MergeBench. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MergeBench/Llama-3.2-3B_coding

Llama 3.2 3B Coding Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3B Coding
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MergeBench/Llama-3.2-3B_coding
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-06-28
Maintainer	MergeBench
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	4.48.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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