What are the hardware requirements for Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit requires approximately 8.6 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 Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit and how large is it?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit?

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 8.6GB, 8K context

Name: Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 8.6GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

8bit Axolotl Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/hermes... Chatml Conversational Dataset:teknium/openhermes-2.5 Distillation Dpo En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Function calling Gpt Gpt4 Instruct Json mode Llama Llama-3 Merges Nous-hermes Nous-research Quantized Region:us Rlhf Safetensors Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B-8bit

Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Model was converted to MLX format from NousResearch/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B using mlx-lm version 0.14.3.

Supported Languages

en (proficient)

LLM Name	Hermes 2 Theta Llama 3 8B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Hermes-2-Theta-Llama-3-8B-8bit
Base Model(s)	Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B NousResearch/Hermes-2-Pro-Llama-3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	8.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 3.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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