Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
8.0 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
RedHatAI · B
Params
15.7 B
Context
163,840
30d
204 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-FP8
Parameters 8.0 B 15.7 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM DeepseekV2ForCausalLM
Context length 163,840
Licence llama3.1 other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 203,893
Downloads all time 175.3 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2024-07-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.0 M195 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-FP8

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-FP8 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 65.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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