What are the hardware requirements for Llava V1.6 34B 8bit?

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit requires approximately 36.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llava V1.6 34B 8bit and how large is it?

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 34b 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 V1.6 34B 8bit?

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 36.7GB

Name: Llava V1.6 34B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 36.7GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

8bit Conversational En Image-text-to-text Llava next Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-v1.6-34b-8bit

Llava V1.6 34B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llava V1.6 34B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/llava-v1.6-34b-8bit
Model Size	34b
Required VRAM	36.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llava_next
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-7 5.3 GB: 2-of-7 5.3 GB: 3-of-7 5.3 GB: 4-of-7 5.3 GB: 5-of-7 5.3 GB: 6-of-7 5.0 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.39.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64064
Torch Data Type	float16

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