What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Spicy 8B?

Llama 3 Spicy 8B requires approximately 16 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 Spicy 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Spicy 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 Spicy 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 Spicy 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 65.21. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 Spicy 8B by nbeerbower — VRAM 16GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Spicy 8B
Author: nbeerbower

Llama 3 Spicy 8B is an open-source language model by nbeerbower. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 68.2, HellaSwag: 86.7, MMLU: 65.2, GSM8K: 24.6.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:cgato/l3-thespice-8... Base model:nbeerbower/llama-3-... Base model:undi95/llama-3-lewd... Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

Llama 3 Spicy 8B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

This model was created using mergekit by merging pre-trained models.

Training Details

Methodology:

Merged using Model Stock merge method

LLM Name	Llama 3 Spicy 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/llama-3-spicy-8B
Base Model(s)	Llama 3 Stinky V2 8B cgato/L3-TheSpice-8b-v0.8.3 Llama 3 LewdPlay 8B Evo nbeerbower/llama-3-stinky-v2-8B cgato/L3-TheSpice-8b-v0.8.3 Undi95/Llama-3-LewdPlay-8B-evo
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-04-22
Maintainer	nbeerbower
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 6.1 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
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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