What are the hardware requirements for Baldur 8B?

Baldur 8B requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Baldur 8B and how large is it?

Baldur 8B is developed by Delta-Vector, 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 Baldur 8B?

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

Baldur 8B by Delta-Vector — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Baldur 8B
Author: Delta-Vector

Baldur 8B is an open-source language model by Delta-Vector. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: agpl-3.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:arcee-ai/llama-3.1-... Base model:finetune:arcee-ai/l... Chat Dataset:anthracite-org/kalo-op... Dataset:anthracite-org/kalo mi... Dataset:anthracite-org/kalo op... Dataset:epiculous/synthrp-gens... Dataset:epiculous/synthstruct-... Dataset:gryphe/sonnet3.5-slimo... Dataset:lodrick-the-lafted/kal... Dataset:neweden/claude-instruc... Dataset:neweden/gryphe-sonnet3... Dataset:nitral-ai/creative wri... Dataset:nitral-ai/cybersecurit... Dataset:nitral-ai/medical inst... Dataset:nitral-ai/olympiad mat... En Instruct Llama Model-index Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Delta-Vector/Baldur-8B

Baldur 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Baldur 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Delta-Vector/Baldur-8B
Base Model(s)	arcee-ai/Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite arcee-ai/Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	Delta-Vector
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	16.1 GB: 1-of-2 0.0 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	agpl-3.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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