What GPU do I need to run Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r?
8.0B parameters, published in BF16. View on Hugging Face
Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r is published by Salesforce on Hugging Face, with 20,231 downloads and 64 likes to date. It's a LlamaForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in BF16.
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.
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 Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r at its published (BF16) precision: 1× RTX 3090 on simplepod, at $0.160/hr per GPU ($0.160/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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