What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.2 30B Fp8?

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 requires approximately 30.1 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 4.2 30B Fp8 and how large is it?

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 30b 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 4.2 30B Fp8?

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 by ibm-granite — VRAM 30.1GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.2 30B Fp8
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 30.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Endpoints compatible Fp8 Granite Granite-4.2 Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-fp8

Granite 4.2 30B Fp8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.2 30B Fp8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-fp8
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	30.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-27
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-7 4.9 GB: 2-of-7 4.9 GB: 3-of-7 4.9 GB: 4-of-7 4.9 GB: 5-of-7 4.8 GB: 6-of-7 0.8 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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...30B Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking X	128K / 58.6 GB	48	1
Granite 4.2 30B	128K / 58.2 GB	995	62
Granite 4.1 30B	128K / 57.8 GB	20845	138
Granite 4.2 30B Fable Distill	128K / 58.2 GB	250	1
Granite 4.2 30B Nvfp4	128K / 17.6 GB	109	2
Granite 4.1 30B Base	128K / 57.8 GB	1705	27
Granite 4.2 30B Mxfp4	128K / 16.8 GB	18	2
Granite 4.1 30B Mxfp4	128K / 15.3 GB	494	2
Granite 4.1 30B Nvfp4	128K / 16.1 GB	344	2
Granite 4.1 30B Mxfp8	128K / 29.8 GB	328	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-fp8.