What are the hardware requirements for Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit?

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit requires approximately 1.8 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 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, 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 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit?

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 1.8GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit
Author: unsloth

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/granite-3.2-2b-instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit

Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/granite-3.2-2b-instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	1.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	granite
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.8 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.49.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<fim_pad>
Vocabulary Size	49155
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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