What GPU do I need to run migtissera/Tess-2.0-Llama-3-8B?

8.0B parameters, published in F16. View on Hugging Face

8.0B
Parameters
F16
Native precision
LlamaForCausalLM
Architecture
text-generation
Pipeline

Tess-2.0-Llama-3-8B is published by migtissera on Hugging Face, with 16,796 downloads and 17 likes to date. It's a LlamaForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in F16.

VRAM required & cheapest live GPU fit

Required VRAM = weight size at each precision, plus a fixed overhead for KV-cache, activations, and fragmentation. Full formula and assumptions: methodology.

Precision
Weight size
Required VRAM
Cheapest live fit
GPUs needed
Est. $/hr (full fit)
FP16
15.0 GB
17.9 GB
P40 (akash)
1
$0.137/hr
cheaper alt.
P4 (akash)
3
$0.095/hr
FP8 (quantized)
7.5 GB
9.0 GB
RTX 4070 (simplepod)
1
$0.080/hr
INT4 (quantized)
3.7 GB
4.5 GB
RTX 3070 (simplepod)
1
$0.050/hr

A GPU is only matched to a row if its hardware supports that precision, and the primary recommendation is always a single-GPU fit when one exists.

INT4 caveat: requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.

Cheapest way to run Tess-2.0-Llama-3-8B at its published (F16) precision: 1× P40 on akash, at $0.137/hr per GPU ($0.137/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.

Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.

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