What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8?

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 requires approximately 8.7 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 4.1 8B Mxfp8 and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 is developed by mlx-community, 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 4.1 8B Mxfp8?

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 by mlx-community — VRAM 8.7GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8
Author: mlx-community

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 8.7GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

8-bit Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Base model:quantized:ibm-grani... Conversational Granite Granite-4.1 Language Mlx Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/granite-4.1-8b-mxfp8

Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 8B Mxfp8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/granite-4.1-8b-mxfp8
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	8.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 3.3 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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