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MetaMeta

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E

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huggingfaceHuggingFace
230.0KDownloads1.2KLikesApr 2025Released10.5M tokensContextLlama 4 CommunityLicense5 EntryQuality

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Quick specs

Parameters109B (17B active)
Architecturemoe (MoE)
Context10.5M tokens
Modalitytext+vision
Min RAM42.5 GB
Rec. RAM66.5 GB (Q4_K_M)
LicenseLlama 4 Community
FamilyLlama
✓ Chat✓ Reasoning

About this model

Llama 4 Scout is Meta's efficient Mixture-of-Experts model with 17B active parameters across 16 experts. Supports a 10M token context window and natively handles text, images, and video inputs.

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AMD
Best overallB
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Intel
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AMD
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AMD
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Intel
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GBB
128 GB

Quantization options

VRAM estimates by quant level

No hardware detected — fit column shows raw VRAM estimates

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
42.5 GB
Low—
Q3_K_S
3
53.4 GB
Low—
NVFP4
4
61.0 GB
Medium—
Q4_K_M
4
66.5 GB
Medium—
Q5_K_M
5
78.5 GB
High—
Q6_K
6
89.4 GB
High—
Q8_0
8
116.6 GB
Very High—
F16
16
223.5 GB
Maximum—

Hardware compatibility

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Memory breakdown

Reference: NVIDIA A10 24GB

Weights66.5 GB
KV Cache2.7 GB
Runtime0.9 GB
Headroom2.4 GB