What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 13B Instruct?

Llama 3 13B Instruct requires approximately 26.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 13B Instruct and how large is it?

Llama 3 13B Instruct is developed by elinas, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3 13B Instruct perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 13B Instruct has the following published scores: MMLU 65.25. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 13B Instruct by elinas — VRAM 26.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 13B Instruct
Author: elinas

Llama 3 13B Instruct is an open-source language model by elinas. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 26.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 58.1, HellaSwag: 77.6, MMLU: 65.3, GSM8K: 44.4.

Merged Model Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/meta-lla... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/elinas/Llama-3-13B-Instruct

Llama 3 13B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Language Model, Text Generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Chat, Storywriting

Limitations:

Occasional grammatical quirks, Logical ability deteriorated

Additional Notes

Merge of pre-trained language models using mergekit.

Training Details

Methodology:

Merge using passthrough method

Input Output

Performance Tips:

Use no repetition penalty or < 1.05.

LLM Name	Llama 3 13B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/elinas/Llama-3-13B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	26.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-01
Maintainer	elinas
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 10.0 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.37.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Text Generation
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