What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B?

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 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 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 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.

How does Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 68.22. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B by nbeerbower — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B
Author: nbeerbower

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B is an open-source language model by nbeerbower. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13, Arc: 69.6, HellaSwag: 84.1, MMLU: 68.2, GSM8K: 69.6.

Merged Model Base model:nbeerbower/llama-3-... Base model:vagosolutions/llama... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/llama-3-slerp-kraut-dragon-8B

Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

This is a merged model using the SLERP merge method and the mergekit tool.

LLM Name	Llama 3 Slerp Kraut Dragon 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/llama-3-slerp-kraut-dragon-8B
Base Model(s)	...ama 3 SauerkrautLM 8B Instruct Llama 3 Dragonmaid 8B VAGOsolutions/Llama-3-SauerkrautLM-8b-Instruct nbeerbower/llama-3-dragonmaid-8B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	nbeerbower
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 6.1 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.37.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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