Which has a longer context window, Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B supports 8,192 tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 supports 131,072 tokens.

What is the difference between Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B is a 8.0B model from Nous Research (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is a 8B model from NVIDIA (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.

Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

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

Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B

Nous Research · 8.0B

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

NVIDIA · 8B

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Specifications

	Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Parameters	8.0B	8B
Context	8K	131K
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	LlamaForCausalLM
License	Llama 3 Community	Other
Downloads	15.7K	308.6K
Released	Sep 2024	Oct 2025

VRAM by Quantization: Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Quantization	Bits	Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B VRAM	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 VRAM
BF16	16.00	—	16.6 GB
FP16	16.00	16.6 GB	—

Verdict

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 supports a longer context window (131K tokens). Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is the more widely downloaded of the two.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which has a longer context window, Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?: Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B supports 8,192 tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 supports 131,072 tokens.
What is the difference between Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?: Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B is a 8.0B model from Nous Research (Llama 3 family), while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is a 8B model from NVIDIA (Llama 3 family). Compare their VRAM requirements above to see which fits your GPU or Mac.