What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X?

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X requires approximately 58.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X is developed by DavidAU, a model with 30b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X perform on standard benchmarks?

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1502. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X by DavidAU — VRAM 58.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X
Author: DavidAU

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X is an open-source language model by DavidAU. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 58.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39, ELO: 1502.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Granite-4.1-30B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Thinking-X

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1502 vs 1272 (so35) 18.1%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Granite-4.1-30B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Thinking-X
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	58.6 GB
Updated	2026-05-31
Maintainer	DavidAU
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-12 4.8 GB: 2-of-12 5.0 GB: 3-of-12 4.8 GB: 4-of-12 5.0 GB: 5-of-12 4.8 GB: 6-of-12 5.0 GB: 7-of-12 4.8 GB: 8-of-12 5.0 GB: 9-of-12 4.8 GB: 10-of-12 5.0 GB: 11-of-12 4.8 GB: 12-of-12
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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