Falcon-7B
Falcon-7B is an open-weights language model from TII, released April 24, 2023. It has 7B parameters (dense). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 73.4, rank 245 of 256 rated models.
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Lab
TII
Released
April 24, 2023
Weights
Open unrestricted
Parameters
7B dense
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
73.4 #245
Can you run Falcon-7B locally?
The smallest common GPU it runs on is 6 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): Q6_K, split GPU / CPU, roughly 8 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Runs, slowly | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 5.2 GB | 3.3 GB | ~8 |
| 8 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q4_K_M (very good) | 7.0 GB | – | ~37 |
| 12 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~36 |
| 16 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~50 |
| 24 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~89 |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~160 |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| MMLU | 13.3% |
Links
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