granite-4.1-8b vs Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4

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

ibm-granite · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
218 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
18.2 B
Context
30d
217 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4
Parameters 8.8 B 18.2 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 217,938 217,456
Downloads all time 6.1 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2026-06-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.3 M207 K
granite-4.1-8b Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 A overtook B on 21 Sep

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 · fp16 27.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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