Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3
Side-by-side comparison of VRAM requirements, quantization, context length, and hardware compatibility.
Specifications
| Finance Llama3 8B | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.0B | 8.0B |
| Context | 8K | 131K |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| License | Llama 3 Community | Other |
| Downloads | 1.9K | 1.7K |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Oct 2025 |
VRAM by Quantization: Finance Llama3 8B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3
| Quantization | Bits | Finance Llama3 8B VRAM | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 VRAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 16.00 | — | 16.6 GB |
| FP16 | 16.00 | 16.6 GB | — |
Verdict
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 supports a longer context window (131K tokens). Finance Llama3 8B is the more widely downloaded of the two.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Which has a longer context window, Finance Llama3 8B or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3?
Finance Llama3 8B supports 8,192 tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 supports 131,072 tokens.
- What is the difference between Finance Llama3 8B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3?
Finance Llama3 8B is a 8.0B model from instruction-pretrain (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 is a 8.0B model from NVIDIA (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.