Llama 3.3 70B Benchmark: Matches Llama 3.1 405B Performance at One-Fifth the VRAM
Meta's latest open-weights model achieves 405B-class benchmark performance on a single 8x H100 node or quantized 4-bit dual RTX 4090s.
Frontier Efficiency for Self-Hosters
Meta AI's Llama 3.3 70B proves that dense training on high-quality synthetic tokens delivers 400B-class intelligence in a lightweight 70B footprint.
Local Quantization & Inference Speeds
Using AWQ or EXL2 quantization, Llama 3.3 70B runs comfortably on workstations with 48GB VRAM, generating 35 tokens per second for local coding workflows.
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