granite-4.1-8b vs Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
RedHatAI · B
Params
11.3 B
Context
65,536
30d
338 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 11.3 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | ApertusForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 337,908 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 516 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2025-09-21 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M226 K
granite-4.1-8b
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16 · fp16
46.0 GB / 24 GB