What are the hardware requirements for LLaMa3?

LLaMa3 requires approximately 0.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 0.3K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LLaMa3 and how large is it?

LLaMa3 is developed by jnjj, a model with 1b 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 LLaMa3?

LLaMa3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LLaMa3 by jnjj — VRAM 0.5GB, 0.3K context

Name: LLaMa3
Author: jnjj

LLaMa3 is an open-source language model by jnjj. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 0.5GB, Context: 0.3K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Endpoints compatible Generated from trainer Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/jnjj/LLaMa3

LLaMa3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LLaMa3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/jnjj/LLaMa3
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	0.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	jnjj
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.5 GB 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	256
Model Max Length	256
Transformers Version	4.48.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float32

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