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Llama 3-70B

Llama 3-70B is an open-weights language model from Meta, released April 18, 2024. It has 70B parameters (dense). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 121.2, rank 181 of 256 rated models.

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Can you run Llama 3-70B locally?

The smallest common GPU it runs on is 24 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ2_XXS, fully on GPU, roughly 30 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	Very slow	IQ2_XXS (heavy loss)	5.2 GB	17.8 GB	~2
8 GB VRAM	Very slow	IQ2_XXS (heavy loss)	7.2 GB	15.8 GB	~2
12 GB VRAM	Very slow	IQ2_XXS (heavy loss)	11.2 GB	11.8 GB	~2
16 GB VRAM	Very slow	IQ2_XXS (heavy loss)	15.2 GB	7.8 GB	~3
24 GB VRAM	Runs on GPU	IQ2_XXS (heavy loss)	23.0 GB	–	~30
32 GB VRAM	Runs on GPU	IQ2_M (heavy loss)	28.6 GB	–	~44

Strengths by category

ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.

Category	Score	Based on
Math	9.8	MATH level 5, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Knowledge	28.5	GPQA diamond, MMLU

Benchmark results

Benchmark (Epoch AI)	Score
MMLU	72.4%
MATH level 5	22.6%
GPQA Diamond	21.6%
OTIS Mock AIME	4.2%

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Epoch AI benchmarks

Models with a similar score

Claude 3.5 Haiku · GPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023) · Llama 3.1-70B · GPT-4o mini · Llama 3.2 90B · Qwen2-72B · GPT-4 (Mar 2023) · DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)