What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B?

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B 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 Typhoon V1.5 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B is developed by scb10x, 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 Typhoon V1.5 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B has the following published scores: MMLU 65.45. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B by scb10x — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B
Author: scb10x

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B is an open-source language model by scb10x. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17, Arc: 56.4, HellaSwag: 80.6, MMLU: 65.5, GSM8K: 55.7.

Arxiv:2312.13951 Autotrain compatible Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Pretrained Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Th

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/scb10x/llama-3-typhoon-v1.5-8b

Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, decoder-only

Use Cases

Areas:

research, language modeling

Applications:

text generation

Limitations:

may generate harmful or inappropriate responses, pretrained only, may require fine-tuning for effective instruction following

Additional Notes

The model does not have any moderation mechanisms

Supported Languages

thai (fluent), english (fluent)

LLM Name	Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/scb10x/llama-3-typhoon-v1.5-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	scb10x
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	th en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Llama 3 Typhoon V1.5 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...ma 3 Typhoon 8B Cross 1.0 Gguf	0	20	4 GB

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than scb10x/llama-3-typhoon-v1.5-8b.