What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit?

Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit requires approximately 21.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1024K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit and how large is it?

Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 Gradient 1048K 2bit?

Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit 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 Gradient 1048K 2bit by mlx-community — VRAM 21.9GB, 1024K context

Name: Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit
Author: mlx-community

Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 21.9GB, Context: 1024K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

2bit Conversational En Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k-2bit

Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format using mlx-lm version 0.10.0.

Supported Languages

en (High)

LLM Name	Llama 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k-2bit
Base Model(s)	... 3 70B Instruct Gradient 1048K gradientai/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	21.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-5 5.3 GB: 2-of-5 5.3 GB: 3-of-5 5.3 GB: 4-of-5 0.7 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	2bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	1048576
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.41.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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