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Figure 18: Llama 3.2 1B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
DenseMeta 🇺🇸 · September 25, 2024

Llama 3.2 (1B)

Small dense Llama baseline in the Qwen comparison, with fewer layers but more width.

Key detail

Wider architecture with more heads than Qwen3 0.6B.

Parameters

1B

Context

128K

KV / token

32 KiB

Fact sheet

Scale
1B parameters
Context window
128,000 tokens
Decoder type
Dense
Attention
GQA
Layer mix
16 GQA
KV cache / token (bf16)
32 KiB · Low
License
Llama Community License Agreement (variant-specific)
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

100%

Dense: every weight runs for every token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

32 KiB

Smaller than 72% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

4.8

Scientific
2.7

Architecture concepts

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  • Architecture diagram of Antares (1B)

    Cisco, released 2026-07-21. Dense decoder, 1B parameters, 128K context. Attention: GQA with RoPE.

  • Architecture diagram of Qwen3 (0.6B)

    Alibaba Cloud, released 2025-04-28. Dense decoder, 600M parameters, 32K context. Attention: GQA.

  • Architecture diagram of SmolLM3 (3B)

    Hugging Face, released 2025-06-19. Dense decoder, 3B parameters, 128K context. Attention: GQA with periodic NoPE layers.

  • Architecture diagram of Llama 3.2 (3B)

    Meta, released 2024-09-25. Dense decoder, 3B parameters, 128K context. Attention: GQA.

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