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

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

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf is developed by Undi95, 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 Hf?

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf 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 Hf by Undi95 — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf
Author: Undi95

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf is an open-source language model by Undi95. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Conversational En Endpoints compatible Facebook Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-hf

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Commercial, Research

Applications:

Assistant-like chat, Natural language generation

Limitations:

Use in languages other than English, Use violating laws or regulations, Prohibited by Acceptable Use Policy

Considerations:

Developers may fine-tune for other languages with compliance.

Training Details

Data Sources:

A new mix of publicly available online data

Data Volume:

15T+ tokens

Methodology:

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)

Context Length:

8000

Hardware Used:

H100-80GB GPUs

Model Architecture:

Auto-regressive Transformer

Safety Evaluation

Methodologies:

Red teaming, Adversarial Testing

Risk Categories:

Cyber Security, Child Safety

Responsible Ai Considerations

Fairness:

Developed with an emphasis on responsible AI development to limit misuse and harm.

Transparency:

Collaborates with open consortiums for safety transparency.

Mitigation Strategies:

Includes Meta Llama Guard 2 and Code Shield for safety.

Input Output

Input Format:

Text

Output Format:

Text and code

Release Notes

Version:

Date:

April 18, 2024

Notes:

Incorporates optimized transformer architecture and safety improvements.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-hf
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	Undi95
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...eta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf AWQ	9	179	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Hf

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...otron 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	1135	125
UltraLong Thinking	4192K / 16.1 GB	2	3
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	176	24
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	875	9
...otron 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	124	18
Cthulhu 8B V1.4	1048K / 16.1 GB	10	10
...raLong 1M Instruct Abliterated	1048K / 32.1 GB	4	9
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	1387	29
...otron 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	702	59
Zero Llama 3.1 8B Beta6	1048K / 16.1 GB	7	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Undi95/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-hf.