What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K 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 8B Instruct 64K and how large is it?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K is developed by MaziyarPanahi, 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 Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K by MaziyarPanahi — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K
Author: MaziyarPanahi

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K is an open-source language model by MaziyarPanahi. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2309.10400 64k Axolotl Base model:finetune:winglian/l... Base model:winglian/llama-3-8b... Conversational Dataset:intel/orca dpo pairs Deploy:azure Dpo En Facebook Finetuned Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pose Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-64k

Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

This model uses PoSE to extend Llama's context length from 8k to 64k.

Supported Languages

en (proficient)

Training Details

Data Sources:

RedPajama V1 dataset

Data Volume:

300M tokens

Methodology:

rank stabilized LoRA of rank 256

Context Length:

64000

Model Architecture:

Llama-3

LLM Name	Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-64k
Model Name	Llama-3-8B-Instruct-64k
Model Creator	MaziyarPanahi
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 8B 64K PoSE winglian/Llama-3-8b-64k-PoSE
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	MaziyarPanahi
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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Quantized Models of the Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K GGUF	14	56740	3 GB
... Instruct 64K HQQ 1bit Smashed	1	5	3 GB
Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K AWQ	0	7	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Llama 3 8B Instruct 64K

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...otron 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	1135	125
UltraLong Thinking	4192K / 16.1 GB	2	3
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	176	24
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	875	9
...otron 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	124	18
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 MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-64k.