What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit?

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit requires approximately 39.5 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 70B Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, a model with 70b 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 70B Bnb 4bit?

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 39.5GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit
Author: unsloth

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 39.5GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

4-bit 4bit Bitsandbytes En Endpoints compatible Facebook Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/llama-3-70b-bnb-4bit

Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Applications:

NLP, text generation

Additional Notes

The model can be fine-tuned for improving performance and reducing memory usage.

LLM Name	Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/llama-3-70b-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3-70B-Instruct
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	39.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	7.0 GB: 1-of-6 6.9 GB: 2-of-6 6.9 GB: 3-of-6 6.9 GB: 4-of-6 7.0 GB: 5-of-6 4.8 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|reserved_special_token_250\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Text Generation
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Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Llama 3 70B Tagengo	1	3	141 GB
Llama3 70b Ft	0	6	39 GB
Llama 3 70B Uncensored	23	19	141 GB

Best Alternatives to Llama 3 70B Bnb 4bit

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...B Instruct Gradient 1048K 8bit	1024K / 75 GB	41	5
...B Instruct Gradient 1048K 4bit	1024K / 39.7 GB	25	3
...B Instruct Gradient 1048K 2bit	1024K / 21.9 GB	25	2
...0B Instruct Gradient 262K 4bit	256K / 39.7 GB	25	3
...0B Instruct Gradient 262K 8bit	256K / 75 GB	26	2
...0B Instruct Gradient 262K 2bit	256K / 21.9 GB	20	1
... Gradient 262K 2.25bpw H6 EXL2	256K / 22.2 GB	8	0
...t Gradient 262K 4.0bpw H6 EXL2	256K / 37.2 GB	7	1
...t Gradient 262K 2.4bpw H6 EXL2	256K / 23.5 GB	6	0
...t Gradient 262K 3.5bpw H6 EXL2	256K / 32.9 GB	6	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/llama-3-70b-bnb-4bit.