What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2?

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 requires approximately 50 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 Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 and how large is it?

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 is developed by VictorDCh, a model with 24.9b 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 Instruct MoE 2?

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 by VictorDCh — VRAM 50GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2
Author: VictorDCh

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 is an open-source language model by VictorDCh. Features: 24.9b LLM, VRAM: 50GB, Context: 8K, MoE, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mixtral Moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/VictorDCh/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-MoE-2

Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/VictorDCh/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-MoE-2
Model Size	24.9b
Required VRAM	50 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	VictorDCh
Model Type	mixtral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-5 10.0 GB: 2-of-5 10.0 GB: 3-of-5 10.0 GB: 4-of-5 10.0 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MixtralForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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