What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF?

Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF requires approximately 3.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF and how large is it?

Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF 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 Smaug 8B GGUF?

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

Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF by MaziyarPanahi — VRAM 3.2GB

Name: Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF
Author: MaziyarPanahi

Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF is an open-source language model by MaziyarPanahi. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

2-bit 3-bit 4-bit 5-bit 6-bit 8-bit Base model:abacusai/llama-3-sm... Base model:quantized:abacusai/... Conversational Gguf Mistral Mixtral Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-Smaug-8B-GGUF

Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Quantized by MaziyarPanahi.

LLM Name	Llama 3 Smaug 8B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-Smaug-8B-GGUF
Model Name	Llama-3-Smaug-8B-GGUF
Model Creator	abacusai
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Smaug 8B abacusai/Llama-3-Smaug-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	MaziyarPanahi
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	3.2 GB 4.3 GB 4.0 GB 3.7 GB 4.9 GB 4.7 GB 5.7 GB 5.6 GB 6.6 GB 8.5 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel

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