What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.1 Carballo?

Llama 3.1 Carballo 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 Carballo and how large is it?

Llama 3.1 Carballo is developed by proxectonos, 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 Carballo?

Llama 3.1 Carballo is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.1 Carballo by proxectonos — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.1 Carballo
Author: proxectonos

Llama 3.1 Carballo is an open-source language model by proxectonos. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.1, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Cat Dataset:proxectonos/corpusnos Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Es Galician Gl Llama Pt Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/proxectonos/Llama-3.1-Carballo

Llama 3.1 Carballo Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.1 Carballo
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/proxectonos/Llama-3.1-Carballo
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-20
Maintainer	proxectonos
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	gl es en pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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