What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF?

Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF requires approximately 3.2 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 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF and how large is it?

Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF is developed by gaianet, 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 Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF?

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

Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF by gaianet — VRAM 3.2GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF
Author: gaianet

Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF is an open-source language model by gaianet. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Base model:princeton-nlp/llama... Base model:quantized:princeton... En Gguf Instruct Llama Q2 Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/gaianet/Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SimPO-GGUF

Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

Quantized by Second State Inc. Quantized models available.

Supported Languages

en (full)

LLM Name	Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/gaianet/Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SimPO-GGUF
Model Name	Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SimPO
Model Creator	princeton-nlp
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Instruct 8B SimPO princeton-nlp/Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SimPO
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	gaianet
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.2 GB 4.3 GB 4.0 GB 3.7 GB 4.7 GB 4.9 GB 4.7 GB 5.6 GB 5.7 GB 5.6 GB 6.6 GB 8.5 GB 16.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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