What are the hardware requirements for TwinLlama 3.1 8B?

TwinLlama 3.1 8B requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed TwinLlama 3.1 8B and how large is it?

TwinLlama 3.1 8B is developed by C-Felix, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate TwinLlama 3.1 8B?

TwinLlama 3.1 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TwinLlama 3.1 8B by C-Felix — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: TwinLlama 3.1 8B
Author: C-Felix

TwinLlama 3.1 8B is an open-source language model by C-Felix. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Autotrain compatible Base model:finetune:unsloth/ll... Base model:unsloth/llama-3-8b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/C-Felix/TwinLlama-3.1-8B

TwinLlama 3.1 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	TwinLlama 3.1 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/C-Felix/TwinLlama-3.1-8B
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 8B unsloth/llama-3-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2025-09-04
Maintainer	C-Felix
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.43.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|reserved_special_token_250\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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