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granite-3.3-8b-instruct-fp16

mlx-community/granite-3.3-8b-instruct-fp16
fp16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.2B
Weights (est.)
≈ 16.3 GB
Mac memory (est.)
24 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/granite-3.3-8b-instruct-fp16 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct (finetune)
Vendor
IBM · Granite
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
fp16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
56 in the last 30 days · 2.4K all time · 3 likes
Published
2025-04-16 · updated 2025-04-16 (1y ago)
Tags
granite, language, granite-3.3

Other MLX builds of ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
granite-3.3-8b-instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 4.6 GB 8 GB+ 207
granite-3.3-8b-instruct-6bit 6-bit ≈ 6.6 GB 16 GB+ 27
granite-3.3-8b-instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 8.7 GB 16 GB+ 45
granite-3.3-8b-instruct-fp16 (this one) fp16 ≈ 16.3 GB 24 GB+ 56