What are the hardware requirements for BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B?

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B 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 BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B and how large is it?

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B is developed by TroyDoesAI, 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 BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B?

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B by TroyDoesAI — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B
Author: TroyDoesAI

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B is an open-source language model by TroyDoesAI. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: cc-by-nc-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TroyDoesAI/BlackSheep-Llama3.2-3B

BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	BlackSheep Llama3.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TroyDoesAI/BlackSheep-Llama3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	TroyDoesAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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