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convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m is an open-weight embedding model from timm. convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m (FP32) weighs 392 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m is an image feature extraction model developed by timm. It is a ConvNeXt architecture with 196M parameters, pretrained on the LVD-1689M dataset using the self-supervised DINOv3 method and distilled from DINOv3 ViT-7B. The model processes 224x224 images and is distributed under the DINOv3 license.
Summary of the timm/convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | timm |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Image embed |
| Parameters (lead) | 196M |
| Runs with | timm |
| Released | 2025-09-11 |
| Popularity | 9k downloads / month |
| Weights | 392 MB (convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m (FP32), file size) |
| Licence | Its own licence terms |
What it runs on
Weights 392 MB (file size) · overhead about 1.1 GB.
| Card | Runs | Counted memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
Estimates, not measurements: the weights are the build's file size. No cache grows with use; a batch of inputs needs working memory of its own. Counted memory is 92 % of what CUDA reports for the card.
From the model card
A DINOv3 ConvNeXt image feature model. Pretrained on LVD-1689M with self-supervised DINOv3 method, distilled from DINOv3 ViT-7B.
from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm
img = Image.open(urlopen(
'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))
model = timm.create_model('convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m', pretrained=True)
model = model.eval()
# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)
output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0)) # unsqueeze single image into batch of 1
top5_probabilities, top5_class_indices = torch.topk(output.softmax(dim=1) * 100, k=5)
from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm
img = Image.open(urlopen(
'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))
model = timm.create_model(
'convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m',
pretrained=True,
features_only=True,
)
model = model.eval()
# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)
output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0)) # unsqueeze single image into batch of 1
for o in output:
# print shape of each feature map in output
# e.g.:
# torch.Size([1, 192, 56, 56])
# torch.Size([1, 384, 28, 28])
# torch.Size([1, 768, 14, 14])
# torch.Size([1, 1536, 7, 7])
print(o.shape)
from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image
import timm
img = Image.open(urlopen(
'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/beignets-task-guide.png'
))
model = timm.create_model(
'convnext_large.dinov3_lvd1689m',
pretrained=True,
num_classes=0, # remove classifier nn.Linear
)
model = model.eval()
# get model specific transforms (normalization, resize)
data_config = timm.data.resolve_model_data_config(model)
transforms = timm.data.create_transform(**data_config, is_training=False)
output = model(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0)) # output is (batch_size, num_features) shaped tensor
# or equivalently (without needing to set num_classes=0)
output = model.forward_features(transforms(img).unsqueeze(0))
# output is unpooled, a (1, 1536, 7, 7) shaped tensor
output = model.forward_head(output, pre_logits=True)
# output is a (1, num_features) shaped tensor
@article{simeoni2025dinov3,
title={DINOv3},
author={Sim{'e}oni, Oriane and Vo, Huy V and Seitzer, Maximilian and Baldassarre, Federico and Oquab, Maxime and Jose, Cijo and Khalidov, Vasil and Szafraniec, Marc and Yi, Seungeun and Ramamonjisoa, Micha{"e}l and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10104},
year={2025}
}
}
@article{liu2022convnet,
author = {Zhuang Liu and Hanzi Mao and Chao-Yuan Wu and Christoph Feichtenhofer and Trevor Darrell and Saining Xie},
title = {A ConvNet for the 2020s},
journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2022},
}
@misc{rw2019timm,
author = {Ross Wightman},
title = {PyTorch Image Models},
year = {2019},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4414861},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models}}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face — the full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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