What are the hardware requirements for Llama 7B 8bit?

Llama 7B 8bit requires approximately 7.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 7B 8bit and how large is it?

Llama 7B 8bit is developed by universonic, a model with 7b 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 7B 8bit?

Llama 7B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 7B 8bit by universonic — VRAM 7.1GB, 2K context

Name: Llama 7B 8bit
Author: universonic

Llama 7B 8bit is an open-source language model by universonic. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 7.1GB, Context: 2K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.06.

8-bit 8bit Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/universonic/llama-7b-8bit

Llama 7B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 7B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/universonic/llama-7b-8bit
Base Model(s)	Todd Proxy LoRA 7b autobots/Todd_Proxy_LoRA_7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	7.1 GB
Updated	2026-05-11
Maintainer	universonic
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.0 GB: 1-of-8 1.0 GB: 2-of-8 1.0 GB: 3-of-8 1.0 GB: 4-of-8 1.0 GB: 5-of-8 1.0 GB: 6-of-8 0.8 GB: 7-of-8 0.3 GB: 8-of-8 1.0 GB: 1-of-8 1.0 GB: 2-of-8 1.0 GB: 3-of-8 1.0 GB: 4-of-8 1.0 GB: 5-of-8 1.0 GB: 6-of-8 0.8 GB: 7-of-8 0.3 GB: 8-of-8
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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