What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B?

Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 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 Fantasy Writer 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B is developed by maldv, 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 Fantasy Writer 8B?

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

Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B by maldv — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B
Author: maldv

Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B is an open-source language model by maldv. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/maldv/llama-3-fantasy-writer-8b

Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

creative writing

Applications:

story generation, fiction writing

Primary Use Cases:

writing assistant for authors

Considerations:

Keep temperatures between 0.5 and 0.7 for optimal results.

Training Details

Data Sources:

book data

Data Volume:

r64, 8k context

Methodology:

instruct trained

Context Length:

8000

Input Output

Input Format:

structured prompts with user turns as chapters and story continuation

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

textual story continuation

Performance Tips:

Keep temperatures low (0.5 to 0.7) and use min-p and smoothing.

LLM Name	Llama 3 Fantasy Writer 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/maldv/llama-3-fantasy-writer-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	maldv
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
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|reserved_special_token_250\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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