What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 11B Instruct?

Llama 3 11B Instruct requires approximately 22.1 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 Llama 3 11B Instruct and how large is it?

Llama 3 11B Instruct is developed by athirdpath, a model with 11b 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 11B Instruct?

Llama 3 11B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 11B Instruct by athirdpath — VRAM 22.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 11B Instruct
Author: athirdpath

Llama 3 11B Instruct is an open-source language model by athirdpath. Features: 11b LLM, VRAM: 22.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Merged Model Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/athirdpath/Llama-3-11b-Instruct

Llama 3 11B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

The model is a merge stock of 3 models: Part Wave, Part Block, and Part Funnel, with Part Funnel as the base.

LLM Name	Llama 3 11B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/athirdpath/Llama-3-11b-Instruct
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	11b
Required VRAM	22.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	athirdpath
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.4 GB: 2-of-3 2.8 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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