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

Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ 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 AWQ and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ is developed by solidrust, 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 Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ?

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

Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ by solidrust — VRAM 5.8GB, 8K context

Name: Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ
Author: solidrust

Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ is an open-source language model by solidrust. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 5.8GB, Context: 8K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

4-bit Autotrain compatible Awq Base model:meta-llama/meta-lla... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/solidrust/Meta-Llama-3-8B-AWQ

Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation, 4-bit, AWQ, autotrain_compatible, endpoints_compatible

Additional Notes

AWQ is an efficient, accurate and fast low-bit weight quantization method supporting 4-bit quantization, with faster Transformers-based inference.

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3 8B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/solidrust/Meta-Llama-3-8B-AWQ
Base Model(s)	Meta Llama 3 8B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	5.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	solidrust
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-2 1.1 GB: 2-of-2
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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