unsloth / text-generation Open weights updated 1 year ago

llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit

Name: llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit
Author: unsloth

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.1 (8B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

Params

8.2 B

Context

8,192

Downloads 30d

227 K

Likes

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Commercial use: conditional · llama3 Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	u8	5.7 GB	8.0 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/llama-3-8b-instruct-bnb-4bit
{
  "hf_id": "unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
  "params_b": 8.25,
  "context_length": 8192,
  "license": { "id": "llama3", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 227242,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "u8", "gb": 8.0 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19T01:00:22Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters: 8.2 B
Tensor type: U8
Context length: 8,192
Vocabulary: 128,256
Layers / heads: 32 / 32
Licence: llama3
First seen on the Hub: 2024-04-18
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-10-19

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