Complete guide to running Llama 3.1 70B (70.6B parameters) locally on your own hardware. This guide covers VRAM requirements at every quantization level (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, FP16), compatible GPUs, expected inference speed in tokens per second, and recommended Ollama settings.
Llama 3.1 70B is one of the most popular open-source LLMs with 12,000,000 HuggingFace downloads. Use the full Llama 3.1 70B model page for detailed benchmarks, quantization comparison, and run commands.