What are the hardware requirements for Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit?

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit requires approximately 9.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 8.3b 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 Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit?

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 9.4GB, 32K context

Name: Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8.3b LLM, VRAM: 9.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

8-bit 8bit Base model:essentialai/rnj-1-i... Base model:quantized:essential... Conversational Gemma3 text Instruct Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/rnj-1-instruct-8bit

Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Rnj 1 Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/rnj-1-instruct-8bit
Base Model(s)	Rnj 1 Instruct EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct
Model Size	8.3b
Required VRAM	9.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3_text
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 4.0 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.51.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float32

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