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Llama 3.3 (70B)

Meta's 70B workhorse. Good finetune ecosystem. Outperformed by GLM 4.5 Air and DeepSeek V3.2 for raw quality.

Parameters
70B
Minimum RAM
48 GB
Model size
42 GB
Quantization
Q4_K_M

Can Llama 3.3 (70B) run locally?

Llama 3.3 (70B) is best suited for high-end workstations with 64 GB RAM. LocalClaw recommends Q4_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 48 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: llama-3.3-70b-instruct

Hugging Face repository: lmstudio-community/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF

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Strengths

  • Best Llama model to date
  • Matches Llama 3.1 405B on some tasks
  • Strong coding and reasoning
  • 128K context

Limitations

  • Requires 48GB+ RAM
  • Slow inference

Best use cases

  • Maximum quality local AI
  • Enterprise
  • Research
  • Complex analysis

Benchmarks

Speed: 2/10

Quality: 9/10

Coding: 8/10

Reasoning: 8/10

Technical details

Developer: Meta AI

License: Llama 3.3 Community License

Context window: 131,072 tokens

Architecture: Transformer with GQA, 128K context

Released: 2024-12