What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit requires approximately 2.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit and how large is it?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit 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 Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit?

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.5GB, 256K context

Name: Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit
Author: mlx-community

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 256K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-262k-2bit

Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format.

LLM Name	Llama 3 8B Instruct 262K 2bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-262k-2bit
Base Model(s)	...ama 3 8B Instruct 262K Chinese shibing624/llama-3-8b-instruct-262k-chinese
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	2bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.41.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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