What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Base 8B SFT?

Llama 3 Base 8B SFT 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 Base 8B SFT and how large is it?

Llama 3 Base 8B SFT is developed by princeton-nlp, 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 Base 8B SFT?

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

Llama 3 Base 8B SFT by princeton-nlp — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Base 8B SFT
Author: princeton-nlp

Llama 3 Base 8B SFT is an open-source language model by princeton-nlp. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2405.14734 Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/princeton-nlp/Llama-3-Base-8B-SFT

Llama 3 Base 8B SFT Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Preference Optimization

LLM Name	Llama 3 Base 8B SFT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/princeton-nlp/Llama-3-Base-8B-SFT
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	princeton-nlp
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
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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