What are the hardware requirements for Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF requires approximately 26.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF is developed by PawanKrd, a model with 70b 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 Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF by PawanKrd — VRAM 26.4GB

Name: Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF
Author: PawanKrd

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by PawanKrd. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 26.4GB, License: llama2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Base model:meta-llama/meta-lla... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... En Facebook Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PawanKrd/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PawanKrd/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Name	Llama 3 70B Instruct
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	26.4 GB
Updated	2025-10-15
Maintainer	PawanKrd
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	26.4 GB 34.3 GB 40.0 GB 42.5 GB 48.7 GB 50.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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