What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 and how large is it?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is developed by nvidia, 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 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 by nvidia — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Author: nvidia

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Arxiv:2502.00203 Arxiv:2505.00949 Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Llama-3 Nvidia Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	nvidia
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
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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...a 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 GGUF	11	2660	2 GB

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