Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4

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
nvidia · B
Params
20.9 B
Context
30d
2.8 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4
Parameters 8.0 B 20.9 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence llama3.1 other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 2,773,900
Downloads all time 175.3 M 9.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2026-04-02

Download trend

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

8.0 M2.7 M
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4

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
Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 · fp16 39.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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