What are the hardware requirements for Rufalcon3 3B It?

Rufalcon3 3B It requires approximately 6.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Rufalcon3 3B It and how large is it?

Rufalcon3 3B It is developed by ehristoforu, 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 Rufalcon3 3B It?

Rufalcon3 3B It is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Rufalcon3 3B It by ehristoforu — VRAM 6.5GB, 32K context

Name: Rufalcon3 3B It
Author: ehristoforu

Rufalcon3 3B It is an open-source language model by ehristoforu. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Base model:finetune:tiiuae/fal... Base model:tiiuae/falcon3-3b-i... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ehristoforu/rufalcon3-3b-it

Rufalcon3 3B It Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Rufalcon3 3B It
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ehristoforu/rufalcon3-3b-it
Base Model(s)	Falcon3 3B Instruct tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	ehristoforu
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	float16

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