What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat?

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat requires approximately 17.1 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 Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat and how large is it?

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat is developed by voidful, 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 Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat?

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat by voidful — VRAM 17.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat
Author: voidful

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat is an open-source language model by voidful. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.1GB, Context: 128K, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Merged Model Arxiv:2408.07990 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:taide/llama-3.1-tai... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gguf Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/voidful/Llama-3.1-TAIDE-R1-8B-Chat

Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.1 TAIDE R1 8B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/voidful/Llama-3.1-TAIDE-R1-8B-Chat
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B taide/Llama-3.1-TAIDE-LX-8B-Chat meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B taide/Llama-3.1-TAIDE-LX-8B-Chat meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	voidful
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	17.1 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.2 GB: 4-of-4
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.49.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	188256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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