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

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct 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 Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF is developed by PawanKrd, 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 Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF?

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

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF by PawanKrd — VRAM 3.2GB

Name: Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF
Author: PawanKrd

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by PawanKrd. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Base model:meta-llama/meta-lla... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Conversational En Facebook Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PawanKrd/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

Contains GGUF format model files for Meta's Llama 3 8B Instruct.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PawanKrd/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF
Model Name	Llama 3 8B
Model Creator	Meta
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	PawanKrd
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.2 GB 4.0 GB 4.7 GB 4.9 GB 5.6 GB 5.7 GB 6.6 GB 8.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama3

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