What are the hardware requirements for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8?

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 requires approximately 8.4 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 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 and how large is it?

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 is developed by ibm-granite, 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 3.3 8B Instruct FP8?

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 by ibm-granite — VRAM 8.4GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 8.4GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Base model:quantized:ibm-grani... Compressed-tensors Conversational Deploy:azure Granite Granite-3.3 Instruct Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct-FP8

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct-FP8
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	8.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	49159
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct-FP8.