What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B?

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 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 Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B is developed by Locutusque, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 64.69. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B by Locutusque — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B
Author: Locutusque

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B is an open-source language model by Locutusque. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 60.8, HellaSwag: 84.1, MMLU: 64.7, GSM8K: 54.8.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/meta-lla... Conversational Dataset:jondurbin/airoboros-3.... Dataset:m-a-p/code-feedback Dataset:maziyarpanahi/wizardlm... Dataset:microsoft/orca-math-wo... Dataset:mlabonne/orpo-dpo-mix-... Dataset:open-orca/slimorca-ded... Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Locutusque/llama-3-neural-chat-v1-8b

Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Text Generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Conversational AI, Great performance in writing and coding

Training Details

Data Sources:

mlabonne/orpo-dpo-mix-40k, Open-Orca/SlimOrca-Dedup, jondurbin/airoboros-3.2, microsoft/orca-math-word-problems-200k, m-a-p/Code-Feedback, MaziyarPanahi/WizardLM_evol_instruct_V2_196k

Methodology:

I fine-tuned llama-3 8B on an approach similar to Intel's neural chat language model. I have slightly modified the data sources so it is stronger in coding, math, and writing. I use both SFT and DPO.

LLM Name	Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Locutusque/llama-3-neural-chat-v1-8b
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 8B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	Locutusque
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.0 GB: 1-of-9 1.9 GB: 2-of-9 2.0 GB: 3-of-9 1.9 GB: 4-of-9 2.0 GB: 5-of-9 1.9 GB: 6-of-9 2.0 GB: 7-of-9 1.3 GB: 8-of-9 1.1 GB: 9-of-9
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B AWQ	2	9	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Llama 3 Neural Chat V1 8B

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Cthulhu 8B V1.4	1048K / 16.1 GB	10	10
...raLong 1M Instruct Abliterated	1048K / 32.1 GB	4	9
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	1387	29
...otron 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	702	59
Zero Llama 3.1 8B Beta6	1048K / 16.1 GB	7	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Locutusque/llama-3-neural-chat-v1-8b.