Yes — with 11.3 GB to spare

Granite 4.1 3B at Q4_K_M fits your Arc A770 16 GB entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 177 tokens per second. There is room for its full 128K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 1.9 GB Apache 2.0 Released 29 Apr 2026

Dense, small, enterprise-flavoured: tool calling and instruction following, no thinking mode.

What hardware do I need for Granite 4.1 3B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 1.9 GB
Weights 1.9 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.63 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 11.3 GB of 14.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
F16 6.3 GB 7.6 GB 95K 54 Reference Long context
Q8_0 3.4 GB 4.6 GB 128K 101 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 2.6 GB 3.8 GB 128K 131 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 2.2 GB 3.5 GB 128K 151 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 1.9 GB 3.1 GB 128K 177 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 1.5 GB 2.8 GB 128K 219 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 1.3 GB 2.6 GB 128K 256 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.

How to run it

terminal
$ ollama pull granite4.1:3b
$ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \
    ollama run granite4.1:3b

The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.

01Download is 1.9 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 128K context on this card.
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