granite-4.1-8b vs EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 7.8 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | ExaoneForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 2 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 389,108 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 637 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2024-12-01 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M295 K
granite-4.1-8b
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16
7.5 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB