What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning?

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning 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 Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning and how large is it?

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning is developed by Shaleen123, 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 3.1 8B Reasoning?

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning by Shaleen123 — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning
Author: Shaleen123

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning is an open-source language model by Shaleen123. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Shaleen123/llama-3.1-8b-reasoning

Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.1 8B Reasoning
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Shaleen123/llama-3.1-8b-reasoning
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-06-29
Maintainer	Shaleen123
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
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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