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Q44GB VRAM minimum

meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Q4 VRAM Requirements

This page answers meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct q4 quantization queries with explicit calculations from our model requirement dataset and compatibility speed table.

Requirement Snapshot
Current quantization-specific requirement breakdown
Selected quantizationQ4
Minimum VRAM4GB
Q4 baseline4GB
Q8 baseline9GB
FP16 baseline17GB
Methodology
No hand-wavy numbers

Exact Q4 requirement from model requirement data.

Throughput data below uses available compatibility measurements/estimates and is sorted by tokens per second for this model.

Need general guidance? Review full methodology.

Best GPUs for meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (Q4)

GPUVRAMQuantizationSpeedCompatibility
AMD Instinct MI300X192GBQ4710 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB141GBQ4653 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB80GBQ4502 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI250X128GBQ4489 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB80GBQ4335 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 509032GBQ4283 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM480GBQ4275 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI21064GBQ4238 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe40GBQ4208 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L4048GBQ4180 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GBQ4173 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 409024GBQ4169 tok/sView full compatibility
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