Model catalog

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta's 3B instruction-tuned Llama model, suitable for modest local hardware when quantized.

Model overview

Available quantizations

Lower-bit quantizations generally use less memory. The compatibility calculator uses these candidates and its transparent approximate memory assumptions; it does not make a performance guarantee.

Compatibility notes

Estimates use the cataloged model-weight size (or a parameter-based estimate), apply weight overhead, and include standard runtime overhead. Context/KV-cache estimates are shown separately only when a target context and supported sourced architecture metadata are available. Real requirements vary with runtime, drivers, and other system use. A model page cannot determine compatibility without your hardware profile; use the calculator for that assessment.

KV-cache architecture metadata

Meta llama-models Llama 3.2 3B Instruct architecture configuration; verified value, last verified 2026-10-02. Meta lists 28 layers, model dimension 3072, 24 attention heads, and 8 KV heads for this exact text-only variant. Head dimension is derived as 3072 ÷ 24 = 128. The estimate assumes conventional full-context attention with FP16 cache elements.

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Meta Llama 3.2 model card; verified value, last verified 2026-09-23. Publisher metadata is separated from approximate GGUF memory-planning candidates. View source