What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF?

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF requires approximately 5.4 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 Experiment V1 9B GGUF and how large is it?

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF is developed by grimjim, a model with 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 Experiment V1 9B GGUF?

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF by grimjim — VRAM 5.4GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF
Author: grimjim

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF is an open-source language model by grimjim. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Base model:grimjim/llama-3-exp... Base model:quantized:grimjim/l... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gguf Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/grimjim/llama-3-experiment-v1-9B-GGUF

Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This is an experimental merge with damage tolerable as is, affecting narrative text completion.

Supported Languages

en (Proficient)

Training Details

Methodology:

passthrough merge method

Model Architecture:

Replication of additional layers without post-merge healing

LLM Name	Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/grimjim/llama-3-experiment-v1-9B-GGUF
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Experiment V1 9B grimjim/llama-3-experiment-v1-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	grimjim
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.3 GB 7.3 GB 9.5 GB 5.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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