granite-4.1-8b vs Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
8.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
206 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B
Parameters 8.8 B 8.5 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM NemotronLabsDiffusionModel
Context length 131,072 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,208,265 206,435
Downloads all time 5.0 M 411 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2026-03-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.2 M176 K
granite-4.1-8b Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B

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
Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-8B · fp16 @ 256K ctx 60.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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