What are the hardware requirements for Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit?

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit requires approximately 5.7 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 Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, 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 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit?

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 5.7GB, 128K context

Name: Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: unsloth

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 5.7GB, Context: 128K, License: meta, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2204.05149 4-bit 4bit Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Bitsandbytes En Endpoints compatible Facebook Llama Llama-3 Meta Quantized Region:us Safetensors Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-bnb-4bit

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	5.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	meta
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.49.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Meta Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...ct Model Llama 3.1 8B Bnb 4bit	0	8	16 GB
Cygnis Alpha 2 8B V0.2	1	8	16 GB
FineLlama 3.1 8B	1	10	16 GB
FineLlama 3.1 8B	0	8	16 GB
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Sebushka Llama 3.1 8B	2	10	16 GB
Llama 3 8B Bnb 4B Kowiki231101	0	11	16 GB
...iction Merged Llama Model V1.0	0	6	16 GB
Llama3.1 8B Reflection	0	18	16 GB
Fikri 3.1 8B Instruct	6	27	16 GB

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