What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B?

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B is developed by nbeerbower, 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 Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B?

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B by nbeerbower — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B
Author: nbeerbower

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B is an open-source language model by nbeerbower. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Base model:finetune:nbeerbower... Base model:nbeerbower/llama-3-... Conversational Dataset:jondurbin/truthy-dpo-v... Dataset:kyujinpy/orca math dpo Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/llama-3-bophades-v3-8B

Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, language model

Additional Notes

Finetuned on datasets 'jondurbin/truthy-dpo-v0.1' and 'kyujinpy/orca_math_dpo' using LoRA method.

Training Details

Data Sources:

jondurbin/truthy-dpo-v0.1, kyujinpy/orca_math_dpo

Methodology:

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Context Length:

2048

Hardware Used:

A100 GPU on Google Colab

Model Architecture:

Mistral-7b with LoRA modification

LLM Name	Llama 3 Bophades V3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/llama-3-bophades-v3-8B
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Wissenschaft 8B nbeerbower/llama-3-wissenschaft-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	nbeerbower
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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