What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1?

Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1 requires approximately 6.4 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 Kermes V2.1 and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1 is developed by Nexesenex, 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 Kermes V2.1?

Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1 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 Kermes V2.1 by Nexesenex — VRAM 6.4GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1
Author: Nexesenex

Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1 is an open-source language model by Nexesenex. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:dphn/dolphin3.0-lla... Base model:nexesenex/llama 3.2... Base model:saisexperiments/evi... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Nexesenex/Llama_3.2_3b_Kermes_v2.1

Llama 3.2 3B Kermes V2.1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3b Kermes V2.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Nexesenex/Llama_3.2_3b_Kermes_v2.1
Base Model(s)	cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B SaisExperiments/Evil-Alpaca-3B-L3.2 Nexesenex/Llama_3.2_3b_Kermes_0.20 cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B SaisExperiments/Evil-Alpaca-3B-L3.2 Nexesenex/Llama_3.2_3b_Kermes_0.20
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Nexesenex
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.48.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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