What are the hardware requirements for Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct?

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct requires approximately 243.9 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 Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct is developed by mlabonne, 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 Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct?

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct by mlabonne — VRAM 243.9GB, 8K context

Name: Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct
Author: mlabonne

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct is an open-source language model by mlabonne. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 243.9GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct

Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Use Cases

Applications:

Creative Writing

Primary Use Cases:

Creative Writing

Limitations:

Struggles in tasks other than creative writing, potential typos and frequent use of uppercase

Considerations:

Use with caution and do not expect it to outperform GPT-4 outside of some specific use cases.

Additional Notes

Outputs sometimes include typos and uppercase usage.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	243.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	mlabonne
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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Quantized Models of the Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GPTQ	16	905	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ	1	8	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ	12	384	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 4bit	7	304	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GPTQ	2	321	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GPTQ	0	6	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit	6	81	75 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct AWQ	0	9	39 GB
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct GPTQ	2	6	39 GB

Best Alternatives to Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct

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Llama3 Function Calling 1048K	1024K / 141.9 GB	5	1
...a 3 70B Instruct Gradient 524K	512K / 141.9 GB	24	23
...a 3 70B Instruct Gradient 262K	256K / 141.9 GB	20	56
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V2.0	256K / 141.1 GB	10	3
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V1.6	256K / 141.2 GB	5	0
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V1.5	256K / 141.2 GB	21	3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	128K / 141.9 GB	813492	938

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct.