What are the hardware requirements for Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 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 Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B and how large is it?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 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.

How does Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 66.55. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B by NousResearch — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B
Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Author: NousResearch

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25, Arc: 63.1, HellaSwag: 82.6, MMLU: 66.6, GSM8K: 70.4.

Axolotl Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/hermes... Chatml Conversational Dataset:teknium/openhermes-2.5 Deploy:azure Distillation Dpo En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Function calling Gpt4 Instruct Json mode Llama Llama-3 Merges Region:us Rlhf Safetensors Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

instruct, finetune, chatbot, function calling

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Additional Notes

Model supports ChatML format and function calling.

Training Details

Data Sources:

teknium/OpenHermes-2.5

Methodology:

RLHF, distillation

Input Output

Input Format:

ChatML

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B
Base Model(s)	Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B NousResearch/Hermes-2-Pro-Llama-3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
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	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Model	Downloads	VRAM
Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B AWQ	16	5 GB
Depression Turtle	45	0 GB
Depression Turtle GGUF Q4 K M	25	4 GB

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