What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5?

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 requires approximately 17.6 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 8B SFT Fable5 and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 is developed by ermiaazarkhalili, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5?

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 by ermiaazarkhalili — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5
Author: ermiaazarkhalili

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 is an open-source language model by ermiaazarkhalili. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Granite Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ermiaazarkhalili/Granite-4.1-8B-SFT-Fable5

Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 8B SFT Fable5
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ermiaazarkhalili/Granite-4.1-8B-SFT-Fable5
Model Name	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	ermiaazarkhalili
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.8 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ermiaazarkhalili/Granite-4.1-8B-SFT-Fable5.