What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original 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 Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original and how large is it?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original is developed by lemonhat, 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 3.1 8B Instruct Original?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original by lemonhat — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original
Author: lemonhat

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original is an open-source language model by lemonhat. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/lemonhat/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-original

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Original
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/lemonhat/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-original
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-06-13
Maintainer	lemonhat
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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