Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs gpt2-large

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
10.4 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
openai-community · B
Params
810 M
Context
30d
1.5 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gpt2-large
Parameters 1.2 B 810 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length
Licence llama3.2 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 10,412,058 1,489,219
Downloads all time 92.8 M 58.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.4 M1.5 M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gpt2-large

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-large · fp16 4.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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