What are the hardware requirements for Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct?

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct requires approximately 6.6 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 3.1 3B A800m Instruct and how large is it?

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct 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 3.1 3B A800m Instruct?

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct by ibm-granite — VRAM 6.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Eval-results Granite-3.1 Granitemoe Instruct Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct

Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-base ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granitemoe
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	49155
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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