What are the hardware requirements for Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ?

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ requires approximately 5.8 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 Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ is developed by nm-testing, 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 Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ perform on standard benchmarks?

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ has the following published scores: MMLU 65.06. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ by nm-testing — VRAM 5.8GB, 8K context

Name: Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ
Author: nm-testing

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ is an open-source language model by nm-testing. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 5.8GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 59.6, HellaSwag: 78.8, MMLU: 65.1, GSM8K: 57.3.

4-bit Autotrain compatible Conversational Gptq Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nm-testing/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GPTQ

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, inference model

Additional Notes

This model includes 4-bit quantization using GPTQ, optimized for specific benchmarks and evaluations.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct GPTQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nm-testing/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GPTQ
Base Model(s)	...eta Llama 3 8B Instruct FP8 KV neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-FP8-KV
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	5.8 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	nm-testing
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-2 1.1 GB: 2-of-2
GPTQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gptq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than nm-testing/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GPTQ.