Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs gpt-neox-20b

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
EleutherAI · B
Params
20.7 B
Context
2,048
30d
927 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct gpt-neox-20b
Parameters 8.0 B 20.7 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 926,862
Downloads all time 175.3 M 5.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2022-04-07

Download trend

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

8.0 M881 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct gpt-neox-20b

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
gpt-neox-20b · fp16 49.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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