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

Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct 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 TechWriter Instruct and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct is developed by Shankarblr, 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 TechWriter Instruct?

Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct 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 TechWriter Instruct by Shankarblr — VRAM 6.4GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct
Author: Shankarblr

Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct is an open-source language model by Shankarblr. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

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

Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3B TechWriter Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Shankarblr/Llama-3.2-3B-TechWriter-Instruct
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2026-09-11
Maintainer	Shankarblr
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.5.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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