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Llama-3.2

LLMs meta-llama Text gen 9 builds Open, with conditions 6.7M dl/mo

Llama-3.2 is an open-weight language model from Meta. Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic (FP8) weighs 2.0 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.

  • Llama-3.2 is a multilingual large language model developed by Meta for text generation tasks such as dialogue, agentic retrieval, and summarization.
  • The specific 1B variant contains 1.2B parameters and supports a context length of 128k tokens.
  • It officially supports English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai, and is distributed under the Llama 3.2 Community License.

Summary of the meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byMeta
Released2024-09-18
Parameters1.2B
VRAM2.0 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic (FP8)

2.0 GBweights, file size
33 MBcache per 1K tokens
661 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB
FP8 without its speed-up here
338all 128K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB4711all 128K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB
FP8 without its speed-up here
7719all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB7619all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB10526all 128K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB15338all 128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB
FP8 without its speed-up here
28170all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB26666all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB32581all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified37593all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB489122all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB630157all 128K176 GB
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
13.0 GB3.8 GB
54.0 GB8.1 GB
84.8 GB11.3 GB
167.0 GB19.9 GB
3211.3 GB37.0 GB
6419.9 GB71.4 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct ↗ 1.2BBF16 2.5 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct ↗ 3.2BBF16 6.4 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct ↗
packaged by unsloth
1.2BBF16 2.5 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic (above) ↗
packaged by RedHatAI
1.5BFP8 2.0 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-GGUF ↗
packaged by unsloth
27 builds: IQ1_S 912 MB … BF16 6.4 GB
GGUF 2.0 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct ↗
packaged by unsloth
3.2BBF16 6.4 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic ↗
packaged by RedHatAI
3.6BFP8 4.4 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit ↗
packaged by unsloth
3.3BINT4 2.4 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-bnb-4bit ↗
packaged by unsloth
1.3BINT4 1.0 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What Meta says about Llama-3.2

Read the model card

See our collection for all versions of Llama 3.2 including GGUF, 4-bit and original 16-bit formats.

Finetune Llama 3.2, Gemma 2, Mistral 2-5x faster with 70% less memory via Unsloth!

unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

For more details on the model, please go to Meta's original model card

All notebooks are beginner friendly! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.

  • * Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.

Special Thanks

A huge thank you to the Meta and Llama team for creating and releasing these models.

Model Information

The Meta Llama 3.2 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pretrained and instruction-tuned generative models in 1B and 3B sizes (text in/text out). The Llama 3.2 instruction-tuned text only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases, including agentic retrieval and summarization tasks. They outperform many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks.

Model developer: Meta

Model Architecture: Llama 3.2 is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. The tuned versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to align with human preferences for helpfulness and safety.

Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai are officially supported. Llama 3.2 has been trained on a broader collection of languages than these 8 supported languages. Developers may fine-tune Llama 3.2 models for languages beyond these supported languages, provided they comply with the Llama 3.2 Community License and the Acceptable Use Policy. Developers are always expected to ensure that their deployments, including those that involve additional languages, are completed safely and responsibly.

Llama 3.2 family of models Token counts refer to pretraining data only. All model versions use Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for improved inference scalability.

Model Release Date: Sept 25, 2024

Status: This is a static model trained on an offline dataset. Future versions may be released that improve model capabilities and safety.

License: Use of Llama 3.2 is governed by the Llama 3.2 Community License (a custom, commercial license agreement).

Where to send questions or comments about the model Instructions on how to provide feedback or comments on the model can be found in the model README. For more technical information about generation parameters and recipes for how to use Llama 3.1 in applications, please go here.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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