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Llama 3.3 (8B)

Meta's refined 8B. Best all-around model for general use. Rock-solid instruction following.

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Parameters
8B
Minimum RAM
8 GB
Model size
5.7 GB
Quantization
Q5_K_M

Can Llama 3.3 (8B) run locally?

Llama 3.3 (8B) is best suited for entry-level laptops and desktops. LocalClaw recommends Q5_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 8 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: llama-3.3-8b-instruct

Hugging Face repository: lmstudio-community/Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-GGUF

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Strengths

  • Refined 8B — best all-around
  • Rock-solid instruction following
  • 128K context
  • 8 languages

Limitations

  • Surpassed by Qwen 3 8B on some tasks
  • Llama license restrictions

Best use cases

  • General chat
  • Quick tasks
  • Tool calling
  • RAG applications

Benchmarks

Speed: 8/10

Quality: 7/10

Coding: 7/10

Reasoning: 7/10

Technical details

Developer: Meta AI

License: Llama 3.3 Community License

Context window: 131,072 tokens

Architecture: Transformer decoder-only with GQA

Released: 2025-01

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