What are the hardware requirements for Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B?

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B 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 Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B and how large is it?

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B is developed by mrcuddle, 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 Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B?

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B by mrcuddle — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B
Author: mrcuddle

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B is an open-source language model by mrcuddle. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Axolotl Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/hermes... Chat Chatml Conversational Distillation En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Function calling Gpt4 Instruct Json mode Llama Llama-3 Model-index Pytorch Region:us Roleplaying Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mrcuddle/Dark-Hermes3-Llama3.2-3B

Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Dark Hermes3 Llama3.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mrcuddle/Dark-Hermes3-Llama3.2-3B
Base Model(s)	NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	mrcuddle
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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