What are the hardware requirements for Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit requires approximately 75 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 Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 70b 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 Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit?

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 75GB, 8K context

Name: Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 75GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

8bit Conversational En Facebook Instruct Llama Llama-3 Meta Mlx Pytorch Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-8bit

Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format using mlx-lm version 0.10.0. Refer to the original model card for more details.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-8bit
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 120B Instruct mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	75 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-15 5.2 GB: 2-of-15 5.4 GB: 3-of-15 5.1 GB: 4-of-15 5.2 GB: 5-of-15 5.2 GB: 6-of-15 5.4 GB: 7-of-15 5.1 GB: 8-of-15 5.2 GB: 9-of-15 5.2 GB: 10-of-15 5.4 GB: 11-of-15 5.1 GB: 12-of-15 5.2 GB: 13-of-15 5.2 GB: 14-of-15 1.9 GB: 15-of-15
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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