LLaMA-13B
LLaMA-13B is an open-weights language model from Meta, released February 24, 2023. It has 13B parameters (dense). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 85.4, rank 233 of 256 rated models.
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Lab
Meta
Released
February 24, 2023
Weights
Open non-commercial
Parameters
13B dense
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
85.4 #233
Can you run LLaMA-13B locally?
The smallest common GPU it runs on is 6 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ4_XS, split GPU / CPU, roughly 5 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 | IQ4_XS (good) | 5.2 GB | 4.8 GB | ~5 |
| 8 GB VRAM | Runs, slowly | Q4_K_M (very good) | 7.2 GB | 3.9 GB | ~6 |
| 12 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q4_K_M (very good) | 11.1 GB | – | ~26 |
| 16 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 13.8 GB | – | ~27 |
| 24 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 13.8 GB | – | ~50 |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 13.8 GB | – | ~92 |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| MMLU | 30.3% |
Links
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