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Q44GB VRAM minimum

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

This page answers meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B 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 (Q4)

GPUVRAMQuantizationSpeedCompatibility
AMD Instinct MI300X192GBQ4810 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB141GBQ4666 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI250X128GBQ4524 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB80GBQ4497 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB80GBQ4337 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM480GBQ4310 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 509032GBQ4275 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI21064GBQ4219 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe40GBQ4206 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 409024GBQ4193 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GBQ4182 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L4048GBQ4178 tok/sView full compatibility
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