Llama 3 8B (FP16)
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct, full FP16 weights, batch 1, 2K context.
Primary metric: Tokens / sec (tok/s)
Reference prompts
Representative prompts for this workload. Exact prompts and harness settings still depend on the cited source for each record.
- Prompt 1
Explain the relationship between attention heads and KV cache memory usage for a 7B-parameter transformer at 4K context.
- Prompt 2
Write a 60-word product description for a mid-range AI workstation: 1× RTX 4090, 64GB DDR5, 2TB NVMe. Highlight one trade-off.
- Prompt 3
List five concrete differences between INT4 weight-only quantization (Q4_K_M) and INT8 quantization (Q8_0) for inference.
- Prompt 4
I have 12GB of VRAM and want to run a coding assistant locally. What model size and quantization fit, with what context length?
- Prompt 5
Summarize the difference between greedy decoding and nucleus sampling in 3 short bullet points.
Reference runtime command
A representative invocation for reproducing this workload class. Source-specific runs may use adjacent runtimes unless the record says otherwise.
llama-server -m llama-3-8b-instruct.fp16.gguf -c 4096 -ngl 999 --seed 42 --prompt-file prompts.txtSingle batch. FP16 weights, ~16GB VRAM. Median of 5 runs, warm-up discarded.
Full leaderboard
Every record for Llama 3 8B FP16.
No comparable multi-device results
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Cite this benchmark
Use this in your paper, blog post, or comparison table.
@misc{myaihardware_llama3-8b-fp16_2026,
title = {MyAI Bench: Llama 3 8B (FP16)},
author = {{MyAIHardware Contributors}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.myaihardware.com/benchmarks/workload/llama3-8b-fp16},
note = {Version 1.3, accessed 2026-09-09}
}MyAIHardware Contributors. (2026). MyAI Bench: Llama 3 8B (FP16). MyAIHardware. Retrieved 2026-09-09, from https://www.myaihardware.com/benchmarks/workload/llama3-8b-fp16
MyAIHardware Contributors. "MyAI Bench: Llama 3 8B (FP16)." MyAIHardware, 2026, https://www.myaihardware.com/benchmarks/workload/llama3-8b-fp16. Accessed 2026-09-09.
MyAI Bench, Llama 3 8B (FP16). MyAIHardware Contributors, 2026. Version 1.3. https://www.myaihardware.com/benchmarks/workload/llama3-8b-fp16 (accessed 2026-09-09).