What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4?

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 requires approximately 6.1 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 8B Nvfp4 and how large is it?

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 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 4.2 8B Nvfp4?

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 by ibm-granite — VRAM 6.1GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

8-bit Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Endpoints compatible Granite Granite-4.2 Language Nvfp4 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-nvfp4

Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.2 8B Nvfp4
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-nvfp4
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-27
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.1 GB: 2-of-2
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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