What are the hardware requirements for LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw?

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw requires approximately 7.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 10K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw and how large is it?

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw is developed by SicariusSicariiStuff, 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 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw?

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw by SicariusSicariiStuff — VRAM 7.1GB, 10K context

Name: LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw
Author: SicariusSicariiStuff

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw is an open-source language model by SicariusSicariiStuff. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 7.1GB, Context: 10K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Base model:quantized:sicariuss... Base model:sicariussicariistuf... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Exl2 Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SicariusSicariiStuff/LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_Alpha_EXL2_6.5bpw

LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha EXL2 6.5bpw
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SicariusSicariiStuff/LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_Alpha_EXL2_6.5bpw
Base Model(s)	LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned Alpha SicariusSicariiStuff/LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_Alpha
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	7.1 GB
Updated	2026-05-19
Maintainer	SicariusSicariiStuff
Model Type	llama
Model Files	7.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	exl2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	10240
Model Max Length	10240
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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