Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 September 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
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30d
386 K
llama3 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct | NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 8.9 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | NemotronHForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 131,072 |
| Licence | llama3 | other |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | 6 |
| Downloads 30d | 385,543 | 141,137 |
| Downloads all time | 49.1 M | 4.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-04-17 | 2025-08-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.0 M141 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 · fp16 @ 128K ctx
41.4 GB / 24 GB