What are the hardware requirements for Orchestrator 8B 8bit?

Orchestrator 8B 8bit requires approximately 8.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Orchestrator 8B 8bit and how large is it?

Orchestrator 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 Orchestrator 8B 8bit?

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

Orchestrator 8B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 8.7GB, 40K context

Name: Orchestrator 8B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Orchestrator 8B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 8.7GB, Context: 40K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

8-bit 8bit Base model:nvidia/nemotron-orc... Base model:quantized:nvidia/ne... Conversational Mlx Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Orchestrator-8B-8bit

Orchestrator 8B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Orchestrator 8B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Orchestrator-8B-8bit
Base Model(s)	nvidia/Orchestrator-8B nvidia/Orchestrator-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	8.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-19
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 3.4 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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