What are the hardware requirements for Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit?

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit requires approximately 9.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit and how large is it?

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 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 Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit?

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 9.4GB

Name: Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 9.4GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

8bit Conversational Dataset:lin-chen/sharegpt4v Image-text-to-text Llava Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Xtuner

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-llama-3-8b-v1_1-8bit

Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llava Llama 3 8B V1.1 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-llama-3-8b-v1_1-8bit
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	9.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llava
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 4.0 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlavaForConditionalGeneration
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	float16

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