What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block?

Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block requires approximately 3.6 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 FP8 Block and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block 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 FP8 Block?

Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block 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 FP8 Block by unsloth — VRAM 3.6GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block
Author: unsloth

Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.6GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Compressed-tensors En Endpoints compatible Facebook Llama Llama-3 Meta Region:us Safetensors Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-FP8-Block

Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 3B FP8 Block
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-FP8-Block
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.6 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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