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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RX 580 8GB

Can it run?

Can RX 580 8GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

52.0 tok/s

TTFT

3724 ms

Safe context

26K

Memory

5.0 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well52.0 tok/s5417 ms50K
ChatCRuns well52.0 tok/s2031 ms13K
CodingCRuns well52.0 tok/s3724 ms26K
RAGCRuns well52.0 tok/s6772 ms50K
ReasoningCRuns well52.0 tok/s4402 ms26K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RX 580 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD33
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD34
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD34
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD34
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD35
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD36
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD38
F16
16
6.1 GB
MaximumC45

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for RX 580 8GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct