Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF
- 30-07-2024: Updated chat template to fix small bug with tool usage being undefined, if you don't use the built-in chat template it shouldn't change anything
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf | IQ2_M | 2.9 GB | 3.7 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q2_K.gguf | Q2_K | 3.2 GB | 4.0 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ3_XS.gguf | IQ3_XS | 3.5 GB | 4.4 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q2_K_L.gguf | Q2_K_L | 3.7 GB | 4.6 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ3_M.gguf | IQ3_M | 3.8 GB | 4.7 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf | Q3_K_L | 4.3 GB | 5.3 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf | IQ4_XS | 4.4 GB | 5.4 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ4_NL.gguf | IQ4_NL | 4.7 GB | 5.6 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Run it
copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub$ ollama run meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-gguf # pin the quantization explicitly $ ollama run meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-gguf-iq2_m
$ huggingface-cli download bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF-GGUF \
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf --local-dir .
$ llama-cli -m Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf \
-c 8192 -ngl 99 -t 8 --color
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-gguf
{
"hf_id": "bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF",
"params_b": null,
"context_length": null,
"license": { "id": "llama3.1", "commercial": "conditional" },
"downloads_30d": 301655,
"vram_estimates": [
{ "quant": "IQ2_M", "gb": 3.7 },
{ "quant": "IQ3_M", "gb": 4.7 }
],
"updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:06:52Z"
}
Specifications
- Licence
- llama3.1
- First seen on the Hub
- 2024-07-23
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-07-28
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