What are the hardware requirements for Granite Vision 3.2 2B?

Granite Vision 3.2 2B requires approximately 6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite Vision 3.2 2B and how large is it?

Granite Vision 3.2 2B is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 2b 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 Vision 3.2 2B?

Granite Vision 3.2 2B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite Vision 3.2 2B by ibm-granite — VRAM 6GB

Name: Granite Vision 3.2 2B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite Vision 3.2 2B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 6GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2502.09927 Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Instruct Llava next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.2-2b

Granite Vision 3.2 2B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite Vision 3.2 2B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.2-2b
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-3.1-2b-instruct ibm-granite/granite-3.1-2b-instruct
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	llava_next
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.0 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Errors	replace

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