BigCodetransformer

StarCoder2 3B

3B parameters • 1.8GB VRAM (Q4 estimate) • 16,384 context

Estimate · Q4_K_M · 4k context · batch 1. For dense 7B–70B this sits ~5–8% above the Q4_K_M GGUF file. Not peak runtime VRAM and not a measured bench.

Specifications

Parameters

VRAM (Q4 est.)

1.8 GB

VRAM (FP16)

6 GB

Context Window

16,384

Architecture

transformer

License

BigCode-OpenRAIL-M

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BigCodetransformer

StarCoder2 3B

3B parameters • 1.8GB VRAM (Q4 estimate) • 16,384 context

Estimate · Q4_K_M · 4k context · batch 1. For dense 7B–70B this sits ~5–8% above the Q4_K_M GGUF file. Not peak runtime VRAM and not a measured bench.