What are the hardware requirements for Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K?

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K requires approximately 16.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K and how large is it?

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K 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 8B Code Instruct 128K?

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K by ibm-granite — VRAM 16.2GB, 125K context

Name: Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.2GB, Context: 125K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Arxiv:2407.13739 Code Conversational Dataset:bigcode/commitpackft Dataset:bigcode/self-oss-instr... Dataset:bugdaryan/sql-create-c... Dataset:garage-baind/open-plat... Dataset:glaive-function-callin... Dataset:glaiveai/glaive-code-a... Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:nvidia/helpsteer Dataset:tiger-lab/mathinstruct Deploy:azure Granite Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-128k

Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 8B Code Instruct 128K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-128k
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.3 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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