ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b

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Granite Switch 4.1 8B is a modular LLM that composes a base model, multiple adapters and an encoder together so that a single hosted endpoint can move between natural-language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text. Dense, 8.8B params. Context: 128K tokens (config). License: apache-2.0.

Org

ibm-granite

Released

2026-10-14

Status

main board

License

apache-2.0 (permissive)

Parameters

8.8B

Architecture

dense · GraniteSwitchForCausalLM

Context

131,072 tokens

Task

text-generation · text

Signal

43 HF likes · 2581 downloads

Runs on

real quant files; need = weights + FP16 KV cache for 8K tokens + 1GB. A sizing calculation, not tested.

• Q4 ~8.8 GB: 12GB GPU (RTX 3060), Mac 16GB
• Q8 ~12.5 GB: 16GB GPU (5060 Ti / 4060 Ti / 4080 / 5080), 16GB GPU (7800 XT / 9070 XT), Mac 24GB
• FP16 ~20.4 GB: 24GB GPU (3090 / 4090), 32GB GPU (5090), 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), 24GB GPU (7900 XTX), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Arc B60 24GB, Arc B70 32GB, Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB, Mac 64GB (M1 Max), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 32GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

Links

• Hugging Face
• GGUF: ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-GGUF

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