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LLaMA-65B

LLaMA-65B is an open-weights language model from Meta, released February 24, 2023. It has 65B parameters (dense). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 101.7, rank 214 of 256 rated models.

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Lab
Meta
Released
February 24, 2023
Weights
Open non-commercial
Parameters
65B dense
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
101.7 #214

Can you run LLaMA-65B locally?

The smallest common GPU it runs on is 32 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ3_XXS, fully on GPU, roughly 41 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 memoryVerdictBest quantVRAMRAMtok/s
6 GB VRAMVery slowIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)5.2 GB24.6 GB~1
8 GB VRAMVery slowIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)7.2 GB22.6 GB~1
12 GB VRAMVery slowIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)11.2 GB18.6 GB~2
16 GB VRAMVery slowIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)15.2 GB14.6 GB~2
24 GB VRAMVery slowIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)23.2 GB6.6 GB~4
32 GB VRAMRuns on GPUIQ3_XXS (noticeable loss)29.8 GB–~41

Benchmark results

Benchmark (Epoch AI)Score
MMLU51.2%

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Epoch AI benchmarks

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