What are the hardware requirements for Stable Code 3B GGUF?

Stable Code 3B GGUF requires approximately 1.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stable Code 3B GGUF and how large is it?

Stable Code 3B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, 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 Stable Code 3B GGUF?

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

Stable Code 3B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 1.1GB

Name: Stable Code 3B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Stable Code 3B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.1GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:1910.02054 Arxiv:2104.09864 Arxiv:2204.06745 Arxiv:2305.06161 Arxiv:2307.09288 Arxiv:2309.12284 Arxiv:2310.10631 Base model:quantized:stability... Base model:stabilityai/stable-... Code Dataset:bigcode/commitpackft Dataset:bigcode/starcoderdata Dataset:bigcode/the-stack-gith... Dataset:eleutherai/proof-pile-... Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:tiiuae/falcon-refinedw... En Gguf Model-index Quantized Region:us Stablelm epoch

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stable-code-3b-GGUF

Stable Code 3B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

auto-regressive, decoder-only, text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Research, Commercial applications

Applications:

Code generation across various programming languages

Primary Use Cases:

Filling in the middle of code, Generating text based on input prompts

Limitations:

May exhibit unreliable or unsafe behavior without fine-tuning

Considerations:

Developers should ensure safe performance through fine-tuning for specific applications.

Supported Languages

English (high proficiency)

Training Details

Data Sources:

tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb, bigcode/the-stack-github-issues, bigcode/commitpackft, bigcode/starcoderdata, EleutherAI/proof-pile-2, meta-math/MetaMathQA

Data Volume:

1.3 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Pre-trained with AdamW optimizer using bfloat16 precision with flash attention and Rotary Embeddings.

Context Length:

16384

Hardware Used:

256 NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs

Model Architecture:

Decoder-only transformer, similar to LLaMA with rotary position embeddings.

Input Output

Input Format:

Raw text or code prompts.

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Generated text or code

LLM Name	Stable Code 3B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stable-code-3b-GGUF
Model Name	Stable Code 3B
Model Creator	Stability AI
Base Model(s)	Stable Code 3B stabilityai/stable-code-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-22
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	stablelm_epoch
Model Files	1.1 GB 1.5 GB 1.4 GB 1.2 GB 1.6 GB 1.7 GB 1.6 GB 1.9 GB 2.0 GB 1.9 GB 2.3 GB 3.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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