What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B?

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 Merge Virt Req 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B is developed by grimjim, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 66.73. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B by grimjim — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B
Author: grimjim

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B is an open-source language model by grimjim. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 61.9, HellaSwag: 80.5, MMLU: 66.7, GSM8K: 64.7.

Merged Model Base model:elyn-dev/llama-3-so... Base model:grimjim/llama-3-mer... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/grimjim/llama-3-merge-virt-req-8B

Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This model was merged using the SLERP merge method.

Training Details

Methodology:

slerp

LLM Name	Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/grimjim/llama-3-merge-virt-req-8B
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Soliloquy 8B V2 Llama 3 Merge Pp Instruct 8B openlynn/Llama-3-Soliloquy-8B-v2 grimjim/llama-3-merge-pp-instruct-8B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	grimjim
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.0 GB: 1-of-3 6.0 GB: 2-of-3 4.1 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...3 8B Irene V0.2 6.5bpw H8 EXL2	0	6	7 GB

Best Alternatives to Llama 3 Merge Virt Req 8B

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...otron 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	1135	125
UltraLong Thinking	4192K / 16.1 GB	2	3
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 4M Instruct	4192K / 32.1 GB	176	24
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	875	9
...otron 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	124	18
Cthulhu 8B V1.4	1048K / 16.1 GB	10	10
...raLong 1M Instruct Abliterated	1048K / 32.1 GB	4	9
...a 3.1 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	1387	29
...otron 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	702	59
Zero Llama 3.1 8B Beta6	1048K / 16.1 GB	7	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than grimjim/llama-3-merge-virt-req-8B.