What are the hardware requirements for Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base?

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base requires approximately 13.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base and how large is it?

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 3b 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 3.0 3B A800m Base?

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base by ibm-granite — VRAM 13.5GB, 4K context

Name: Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Granite-3.0 Granitemoe Language Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-base

Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granitemoe
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 3.6 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152

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Best Alternatives to Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct	128K / 6.6 GB	5769	30
Granite 3.1 3B A800m Base	128K / 6.6 GB	1902	10
Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m	128K / 6.6 GB	1241	8
PowerMoE 3B	4K / 13.5 GB	1843751	22
Granite 3.0 3B A800m Instruct	4K / 6.8 GB	3574	20
PowerMoE 3B	4K / 13.5 GB	15341	11

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