What are the hardware requirements for Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74?

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 and how large is it?

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 is developed by cstr, 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 Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74?

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 by cstr — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74
Author: cstr

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 is an open-source language model by cstr. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.1, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Merged Model Base model:cstr/llama3.1-8b-sp... Base model:cstr/llama3.1-8b-sp... Base model:cstr/llama3.1-8b-sp... Base model:cstr/llama3.1-8b-sp... Conversational De En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v74

Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama3.1 8B Spaetzle V74
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v74
Base Model(s)	cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v59 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v63 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v66 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v73 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v59 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v63 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v66 cstr/llama3.1-8b-spaetzle-v73
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	cstr
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.1 GB: 1-of-17 1.1 GB: 2-of-17 1.0 GB: 3-of-17 1.0 GB: 4-of-17 1.0 GB: 5-of-17 0.9 GB: 6-of-17 1.0 GB: 7-of-17 1.0 GB: 8-of-17 1.0 GB: 9-of-17 0.9 GB: 10-of-17 1.0 GB: 11-of-17 1.0 GB: 12-of-17 1.0 GB: 13-of-17 0.9 GB: 14-of-17 1.0 GB: 15-of-17 1.0 GB: 16-of-17 0.2 GB: 17-of-17
Supported Languages	en de
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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