21:07
2026-07-15
discuss.huggingface.co
large-language-models
How much VRAM and how many GPUs to fine-tune a 70B parameter model like LLaMA 3.1 locally?
Fine-tuning a 70B parameter model like LLaMA 3.1 locally requires significant VRAM, with a full fine-tune needing roughly 1.1 TB before activations and realistically 8ร H100/A100-80GB GPUs with ZeRO-3โฆ