What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ?

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ requires approximately 39.9 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 70B Instruct AWQ and how large is it?

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ is developed by mattmalcher, a model with 70b 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 70B Instruct AWQ?

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ by mattmalcher — VRAM 39.9GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ
Author: mattmalcher

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ is an open-source language model by mattmalcher. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 39.9GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

4-bit Awq Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mattmalcher/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-awq

Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

User wanted to convert Meta model weights to an AWQ-quantized model.

LLM Name	Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mattmalcher/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-awq
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 70B Instruct 32K maywell/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-32k
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	39.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	mattmalcher
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-9 4.9 GB: 2-of-9 4.9 GB: 3-of-9 4.9 GB: 4-of-9 4.9 GB: 5-of-9 4.9 GB: 6-of-9 4.9 GB: 7-of-9 3.4 GB: 8-of-9 2.1 GB: 9-of-9
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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