What are the hardware requirements for DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview?

DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview 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 DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview and how large is it?

DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview is developed by NousResearch, 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 DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview?

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

DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview by NousResearch — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: NousResearch

DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Axolotl Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Chat Chatml Conversational Distillation En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Function calling Gpt4 Instruct Json mode Llama Llama-3 R1 Reasoning Region:us Roleplaying Safetensors Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/DeepHermes-3-Llama-3-8B-Preview

DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/DeepHermes-3-Llama-3-8B-Preview
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	llama
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	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...rmes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview 4Bit	2	48	4 GB

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