What are the hardware requirements for Llama3 Ko 4bit?

Llama3 Ko 4bit 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 Llama3 Ko 4bit and how large is it?

Llama3 Ko 4bit is developed by vessl, a model with 8.2b 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 Llama3 Ko 4bit?

Llama3 Ko 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama3 Ko 4bit by vessl — VRAM 5.8GB, 8K context

Name: Llama3 Ko 4bit
Author: vessl

Llama3 Ko 4bit is an open-source language model by vessl. Features: 8.2b LLM, VRAM: 5.8GB, Context: 8K, Quantized, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Merged Model Arxiv:1910.09700 4-bit 4bit Bitsandbytes Endpoints compatible Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/vessl/llama3-ko-4bit

Llama3 Ko 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama3 Ko 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/vessl/llama3-ko-4bit
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8.2b
Required VRAM	5.8 GB
Updated	2026-04-24
Maintainer	vessl
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-2 1.1 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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