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Llama3
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RANKED #173 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #272 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 400 VOICES
Llama3 available through cloud APIs.
HAPPY7.5
45 mentions
SAD7.5
45 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 112 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Llama3 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
8B parameters (Q4 file is ~4.7 GB) and 70B parameters (Q4 file is ~40 GB)
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDLlama-3-8B at Q4_K_M or Q8 quantizations, ~40 tok/s, 8k context fully offloaded to GPU
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Mini M2 Pro
32 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$1,100 USEDLlama-3-8B FP16 at full speed or heavily quantized small models with large context windows
- FULL POWER
Dual Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB Setup
48 GB VRAM
~$1,400 USEDLlama-3-70B at Q4_K_M, ~15 to 20 tok/s with full GPU offload and full context window
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LLAMA3?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Llama3 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Mini M2 Pro | FULL POWERDual Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB Setup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~13 S★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | ~29 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~38 S★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | ~86 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | ~24 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~6.3 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like Llama3, with some gripes. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: speed.
346 POSTS · 54 COMMENTS · STACK OVERFLOW · REDDIT · GITHUB · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · X · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (5 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- It can feel slow (2 mentions)
- Loses the thread in long chats (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- SpeedA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Long conversationsA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“llama3 always hallucinating?.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Llama3.
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-05-20 · 588 UPVOTESI trapped LLama3.2B into an art installation and made it question its own existence endlessly
I trapped LLama3.2B into an art installation and made it question its own existence endlessly
- HACKER NEWS · 2024-09-23 · 495 UPVOTESWe fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs
We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs
- REDDIT · 2024-07-21 · 453 UPVOTESLooks like we’re getting LLama3 405B this week
Looks like we’re getting LLama3 405B this week
- REDDIT · 2026-01-25 · 385 UPVOTESOllama Models Ranked by VRAM Requirements
Ollama Models Ranked by VRAM Requirements
- REDDIT · 2024-11-19 · 330 UPVOTESYour Ollama Servers Are So Open, Even My Grandma Could Use Them!
Your Ollama Servers Are So Open, Even My Grandma Could Use Them!
- REDDIT · 2024-06-27 · 264 UPVOTESGoogle released ultra lightweight Gemma 2 models, the 27B one surpasses llama3 70B and 9B variant surpasses Claude 3 Haiku
Google released ultra lightweight Gemma 2 models, the 27B one surpasses llama3 70B and 9B variant surpasses Claude 3 Haiku
- REDDIT · 2026-06-10 · 231 UPVOTESA laptop bought over a decade before the AI boom (2010) running llama3:8b
A laptop bought over a decade before the AI boom (2010) running llama3:8b
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-02-21 · 222 UPVOTESDeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation
DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation
- REDDIT · 2025-08-17 · 119 UPVOTESKnowledge graph using gemma3
Knowledge graph using gemma3
- REDDIT · 2024-09-05 · 110 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2025-09-20 · 62 UPVOTES"LLM-JEPA: Large Language Models Meet Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures"
"LLM-JEPA: Large Language Models Meet Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures"
- REDDIT · 2026-04-19 · 58 UPVOTESGive your local Ollama models a personal knowledge bank (graph-based, not just vector search)
Give your local Ollama models a personal knowledge bank (graph-based, not just vector search)