Model reference · open weights
Falcon3-prequantized is an open-weight language model from tiiuae. Falcon3-10B-Base-1.58bit-prequantized (BF16) weighs 20.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4090 24 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base-1.58bit-prequantized model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | tiiuae |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-04-30 |
| Parameters | 10.3B |
| VRAM | 20.6 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 2 smaller cards | ||||
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 1 | 11K | 23.4 GB | |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 1 | 11K | 23.4 GB | |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 7 | 1 | all 32K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 16 | 4 | all 32K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 42 | 10 | all 32K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 39 | 9 | all 32K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 50 | 12 | all 32K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 60 | 15 | all 32K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 83 | 20 | all 32K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 111 | 27 | all 32K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 6 | 1 | all 32K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 18 | 4 | all 32K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 18 | 4 | all 32K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 29 | 7 | all 32K | 31.0 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22.8 GB | 26.8 GB |
| 5 | 28.1 GB | 48.3 GB |
| 8 | 32.2 GB | 64.4 GB |
| 16 | 42.9 GB | 107 GB |
| 32 | 64.4 GB | 193 GB |
| 64 | 107 GB | 365 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
This is a 'hacked' version of tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base-1.58bit where model weight scales have been injected into ternary model weights in order to make the model compatible with fine-tuning
The model has been trained following the training strategies from the recent 1-bit LLM HF blogpost and 1-bit LLM paper. For more details about the training protocol of this model, please refer to the Falcon-3 technical report, section Compression.
Currently to use this model you can either rely on Hugging Face transformers library or BitNet library. You can also play with the model using the falcon-1.58bit playground (only for the 7B instruct version).
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_id = "tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base-1.58bit"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
).to("cuda")
# Perform text generation
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet && cd BitNet
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup_env.py --hf-repo tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base-1.58bit -q i2_s
python run_inference.py -m models/Falcon3-10B-1.58bit/ggml-model-i2_s.gguf -p "You are a helpful assistant" -cnv
We report in the following table our internal pipeline benchmarks:
Note evaluation results are normalized score from v2 leaderboard tasks - reported results of original models in the blogpost are raw scores
Coming soon ..
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.