What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF requires approximately 0.4 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 Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF is developed by unsloth, a model with 1b 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 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF by unsloth — VRAM 0.4GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF
Author: unsloth

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 0.4GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Facebook Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Q2 Quantized Region:us Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	0.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.5 GB 2.5 GB 0.8 GB 0.7 GB 0.6 GB 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 0.6 GB 0.8 GB 0.8 GB 0.8 GB 0.8 GB 0.9 GB 0.9 GB 1.0 GB 1.3 GB 0.4 GB 0.4 GB 0.5 GB 0.5 GB 0.6 GB 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 0.8 GB 0.9 GB 1.2 GB 1.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.0.dev0
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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