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MetaMeta

Llama 3.1 8B

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huggingfaceHuggingFaceollamaOllama
7.3MDownloads5.6KLikesJul 2024Released128K tokensContextCommunityLicense3 EntryQuality

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Quick specs

Parameters8B
Architecturedense
Context128K tokens
Modalitytext
Min RAM3.1 GB
Rec. RAM4.9 GB (Q4_K_M)
LicenseCommunity
FamilyLlama
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About this model

Llama 3.1 8B is Meta's efficient general-purpose model supporting 128K context and multilingual text generation. Optimized for dialogue, summarization, reasoning, and code generation tasks.

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Quantization options

VRAM estimates by quant level

No hardware detected — fit column shows raw VRAM estimates

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
Low—
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
Low—
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
Medium—
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
Medium—
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
High—
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
High—
Q8_0
8
8.6 GB
Very High—
F16
16
16.4 GB
Maximum—

Quality benchmarks

Llama 3.1 8B benchmark scores

Benchmark verified

Coding

SWE-bench Verified—
HumanEval+72.6%
Aider Polyglot—
LiveCodeBench—

Reasoning

MMLU-Pro48.3%
GPQA Diamond30.4%
MATH-50051.9%
ARC Challenge83.4%

General

Chatbot Arena—
IFEval80.4%

Source: official · 2024-07-23

Hardware compatibility

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Memory breakdown

Reference: NVIDIA A10 24GB

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime0.9 GB
Headroom2.4 GB