granite-4.1-8b vs gpt-neox-20b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B · Open weights
Params
20.7 B
Context
2,048
30d
259 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b gpt-neox-20b
Parameters 8.8 B 20.7 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 192,200 259,261
Downloads all time 6.1 M 6.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2022-04-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.2 M192 K
granite-4.1-8b gpt-neox-20b

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
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-neox-20b · fp16 49.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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