What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3?

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 requires approximately 32.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 and how large is it?

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 is developed by ValiantLabs, 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 Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3?

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 by ValiantLabs — VRAM 32.7GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3
Author: ValiantLabs

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 is an open-source language model by ValiantLabs. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 32.7GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ValiantLabs/Qwen3-8B-ShiningValiant3

Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 8B ShiningValiant3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ValiantLabs/Qwen3-8B-ShiningValiant3
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 8B Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	32.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	ValiantLabs
Model Type	qwen3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 4.8 GB: 2-of-7 4.8 GB: 3-of-7 5.0 GB: 4-of-7 4.8 GB: 5-of-7 4.8 GB: 6-of-7 3.5 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.53.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float32
Errors	replace

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