Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct vs Llama-2-7b-hf
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 September 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
386 K
llama3 licence · conditional
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
6.7 B
Context
—
30d
211 K
llama2 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct | Llama-2-7b-hf |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 6.7 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | — |
| Licence | llama3 | llama2 |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 385,543 | 210,766 |
| Downloads all time | 49.1 M | 35.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-04-17 | 2023-07-13 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.0 M211 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Llama-2-7b-hf
A overtook B on 2 Nov
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-2-7b-hf · fp16
16.3 GB / 24 GB
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB