What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 3B COT?

Llama 3.2 3B COT 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 Llama 3.2 3B COT and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B COT is developed by ericflo, 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 COT?

Llama 3.2 3B COT 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 COT by ericflo — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B COT
Author: ericflo

Llama 3.2 3B COT is an open-source language model by ericflo. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3.2 Q4 Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Thought-chain

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ericflo/Llama-3.2-3B-COT

Llama 3.2 3B COT Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3B COT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ericflo/Llama-3.2-3B-COT
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	ericflo
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.4 GB 12.9 GB 2.0 GB 2.6 GB 3.4 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2 0.0 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	q4\|gguf\|q4_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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