What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 3B?

Llama 3.2 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 Llama 3.2 3B and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B is developed by unsloth, 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 Llama 3.2 3B?

Llama 3.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.2 3B by unsloth — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B
Author: unsloth

Llama 3.2 3B is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Facebook Llama Llama-3 Meta Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B

Llama 3.2 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

generative, auto-regressive

Additional Notes

It is optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases, including agentic retrieval and summarization tasks.

Supported Languages

languages_supported (English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai), additional_notes (Trained on a broader collection of languages beyond the 8 supported ones.)

Training Details

Methodology:

Tuned versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).

Model Architecture:

Optimized transformer architecture; uses Grouped-Query Attention (GQA).

Release Notes

Version:

3.2

Date:

2024-09-25

Notes:

This is a static model trained on an offline dataset. Future versions may improve capabilities and safety.

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
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	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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