What are the hardware requirements for PowerMoE 3B?

PowerMoE 3B requires approximately 13.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed PowerMoE 3B and how large is it?

PowerMoE 3B is developed by ibm, a model with 3b 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 PowerMoE 3B?

PowerMoE 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

PowerMoE 3B by ibm — VRAM 13.5GB, 4K context

Name: PowerMoE 3B
Author: ibm

PowerMoE 3B is an open-source language model by ibm. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2408.13359 Granitemoe Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b

PowerMoE 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	PowerMoE 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	ibm
Model Type	granitemoe
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-3 4.8 GB: 2-of-3 3.9 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.44.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float32
Activation Function	silu

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