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Llama-3-Dragonfly-Med

LLMs togethercomputer Vision + text 1 build Open, with conditions 2 dl/mo

Llama-3-Dragonfly-Med is an open-weight language model from togethercomputer. Llama-3-8B-Dragonfly-Med-v1 (BF16) weighs 16.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4090 24 GB.

For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.

  • Llama-3-Dragonfly-Med is a multimodal biomedical visual-language model developed by Together AI, designed for image-text-to-text tasks in English.
  • It is an autoregressive transformer-based model fine-tuned from Llama 3, intended for research on large visual-language models by researchers and hobbyists.
  • The model operates under the Llama 3 Community License Agreement but is restricted to non-commercial use only due to the licensing of its training dataset.

Summary of the togethercomputer/Llama-3-8B-Dragonfly-Med-v1 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bytogethercomputer
Released2024-06-03
VRAM16.2 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Llama-3-8B-Dragonfly-Med-v1 (BF16)

16.2 GBweights, file size
762 MBruntime overhead, at least

How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.

CardWeights alone
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
does not fit
RTX 3090 24 GBfits
RTX 4090 24 GBfits
RTX 5090 32 GBfits
L40S 48 GBfits
A100 80 GBfits
H100 80 GBfits
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits
H200 141 GBfits
B200 180 GBfits

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.
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