What is the difference between Finance Llama3 8B and Llama 3.1 405B?

Finance Llama3 8B is a 8.0B model from instruction-pretrain (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.1 405B is a 405B model from Meta (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.

Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.1 405B

Side-by-side comparison of VRAM requirements, quantization, context length, and hardware compatibility.

Finance Llama3 8B

instruction-pretrain · 8.0B

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Llama 3.1 405B

Meta · 405B

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Specifications

	Finance Llama3 8B	Llama 3.1 405B
Parameters	8.0B	405B
Context	8K	—
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	—
License	Llama 3 Community	Llama 3.1 Community
Downloads	1.9K	514.6K
Released	Mar 2026	Sep 2024

VRAM by Quantization: Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.1 405B

Quantization	Bits	Finance Llama3 8B VRAM	Llama 3.1 405B VRAM
BF16	16.00	—	891 GB
FP16	16.00	16.6 GB	—

Verdict

Llama 3.1 405B is the more widely downloaded of the two.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Finance Llama3 8B and Llama 3.1 405B?: Finance Llama3 8B is a 8.0B model from instruction-pretrain (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.1 405B is a 405B model from Meta (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.