Family Llama · 11B parameters

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B

Reads images, describes them, performs light OCR, and analyzes charts.

🇺🇸 Meta·License Llama 3 Community·Context 128k tokens·Output September 2024·Fits within the 128 GB of the GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM← Catalog

01What it can do

Strengths
  • 128k text context + images
  • Meta community license
  • Very good OCR and image description
Limitations to know
  • —Vision quality surpassed by Qwen2-VL and LLaVA-OneVision
Architecture
Dense · 11B · cross-attention vision · CLIP encoder · Llama 3.2
Training
Llama 3.1 8B + vision adapters. Meta's first official vision model.
Ideal for
VisionScanned documents

05Install

Install Ollama for your OS. Check the model and its quantization before downloading. Start with 4096 tokens of context, then check placement with ollama ps. A command below is not proof that a test was run on your machine.

$ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b
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First download: between 2 and 40 GB depending on the selected quantization. Plan for sufficient disk space; a stable connection is recommended. Subsequent launches are instant.

02Required memory

Approximate GPU VRAM required to run this model, including 4k tokens of context overhead. For a longer context, add ~1 GB per 8k-token increment.

Q4_K_M
The lightest, ~5% loss
8 GB
Q5_K_M
Good quality/size compromise
10 GB
Q8_0
Nearly indistinguishable from FP16
14 GB
FP16
Full precision — server use
24 GB
Fallback CPU · If you don't have a GPU, allow 14 GB of RAM minimum to run this model at reduced speed.

What hardware do you need for Llama 3.2 Vision 11B?

To run Llama 3.2 Vision 11B locally with Q4 quantization, you need about 8 GB of VRAM. An option to compare: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (ASUS Prime) — leave some headroom for the system and context; check engine compatibility with the GPU.

Current offer: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (ASUS Prime)
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On the go: Llama 3.2 Vision 11B also runs on a RTX laptop PC (16 GB of VRAM) →

This model in your private ChatGPT, without the cloud

Your private ChatGPT, free, on your own machine in an hour — LM Studio, Ollama, Open WebUI, your documents, no cloud.

  • Lifetime online access
  • PDF + files
  • Lifetime updates

03Expected speed

Tokens generated per second in Q4_K_M, 4k context. Beyond 20 t/s, reading is comfortable. Below 10 t/s, that's just for testing.

Entry-level
~6t/s
GTX 1650, RX 6600, MBA M2 8GB
Mid-range
~22t/s
RTX 4060, 4070, MBP M3 Pro
High-end
~55t/s
RTX 4090, M4 Max, Radeon 7900

04Public benchmarks

Scores reproduced from model cards or MMLU-Pro / community sources. Unit: % correct answers.

MMMU
50.7
DocVQA
88.4