What are the hardware requirements for SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock?

SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock requires approximately 32.1 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 SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock and how large is it?

SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock is developed by DreadPoor, 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 SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock?

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

SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock by DreadPoor — VRAM 32.1GB, 8K context

Name: SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock
Author: DreadPoor

SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock is an open-source language model by DreadPoor. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 32.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3.1, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Autotrain compatible Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-lunari... Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-niitam... Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-stheno... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/DreadPoor/SAO_LightMix-8B-Model_Stock

SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SAO LightMix 8B Model Stock
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/DreadPoor/SAO_LightMix-8B-Model_Stock
Base Model(s)	Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 L3 8B Niitama V1 L3 8B Lunaris V1 Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 Sao10K/L3-8B-Niitama-v1 Sao10K/L3-8B-Lunaris-v1
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	32.1 GB
Updated	2025-11-14
Maintainer	DreadPoor
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 4.9 GB: 2-of-7 5.0 GB: 3-of-7 5.0 GB: 4-of-7 4.8 GB: 5-of-7 5.0 GB: 6-of-7 2.4 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float32

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