Which has a longer context window, Finance Llama3 8B or Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?

Finance Llama3 8B supports 8,192 tokens and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct supports 131,072 tokens.

What is the difference between Finance Llama3 8B and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?

Finance Llama3 8B is a 8.0B model from instruction-pretrain (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a 70.6B model from Meta (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.

Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

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 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta · 70.6B

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Specifications

	Finance Llama3 8B	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Parameters	8.0B	70.6B
Context	8K	131K
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	—
License	Llama 3 Community	llama3.3
Downloads	1.9K	802.3K
Released	Mar 2026	Dec 2024

VRAM by Quantization: Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Quantization	Bits	Finance Llama3 8B VRAM	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct VRAM
Q2_K	3.40	—	33.0 GB
Q3_K_M	3.90	—	37.8 GB
Q3_K_S	3.50	—	34.0 GB
Q4_0	4.00	—	38.8 GB
Q4_K_M	4.80	—	46.6 GB
Q5_K_M	5.70	—	55.3 GB
Q6_K	6.60	—	64.0 GB
Q8_0	8.00	—	77.6 GB

Verdict

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct supports a longer context window (131K tokens). Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is the more widely downloaded of the two.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which has a longer context window, Finance Llama3 8B or Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?: Finance Llama3 8B supports 8,192 tokens and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct supports 131,072 tokens.
What is the difference between Finance Llama3 8B and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?: Finance Llama3 8B is a 8.0B model from instruction-pretrain (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a 70.6B model from Meta (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.