What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 6B V0?

Llama 3 6B V0 requires approximately 12.6 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 6B V0 and how large is it?

Llama 3 6B V0 is developed by prince-canuma, a model with 6b 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 6B V0?

Llama 3 6B V0 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 6B V0 by prince-canuma — VRAM 12.6GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 6B V0
Author: prince-canuma

Llama 3 6B V0 is an open-source language model by prince-canuma. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 12.6GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2212.05055 Arxiv:2404.08634 6b Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Llama-3-6b Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prince-canuma/Llama-3-6B-v0

Llama 3 6B V0 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Llama

Additional Notes

This model is an untrained base model from Meta-Llama-3-8B using a technique called downcycling. A trained version of this model is available on Hugging Face.

LLM Name	Llama 3 6B V0
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prince-canuma/Llama-3-6B-v0
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	12.6 GB
Updated	2026-05-29
Maintainer	prince-canuma
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 2.6 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
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 Llama 3 6B V0

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...ma Llama 3 6B V0.1 2 2bpw EXL2	0	6	2 GB

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than prince-canuma/Llama-3-6B-v0.