What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 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 DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B is developed by suayptalha, 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 DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B by suayptalha — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B
Author: suayptalha

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B is an open-source language model by suayptalha. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Axolotl Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Conversational Dataset:servicenow-ai/r1-disti... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Model-index R1 Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/suayptalha/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-3B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/suayptalha/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-3B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	suayptalha
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.48.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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