Complete guide to running Llama 3 8B (8B parameters) locally on your own hardware. This guide covers VRAM requirements at every quantization level (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, FP16), compatible GPUs, expected inference speed in tokens per second, and recommended Ollama settings.
Llama 3 8B is one of the most popular open-source LLMs with 3,000,000 HuggingFace downloads. Use the full Llama 3 8B model page for detailed benchmarks, quantization comparison, and run commands.