Yes — with 7.6 GB to spare
Granite 4.1 8B at Q4_K_M fits your GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 35 tokens per second. Past 56K the KV cache pushes it over — quantise the cache to q8_0, or step down a quantisation, to go longer.
Fully on GPU
8K context
Q4_K_M · 4.9 GB
Apache 2.0
Released 29 Apr 2026
Matches the old Granite 4.0 32B MoE at a quarter of the size. Fast, Apache 2.0, no reasoning traces.
The VRAM budget
weights 4.9 GB
Weights 4.9 GB
KV cache @ 8K 1.25 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 7.6 GB of 14.4 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 | 16.4 GB | 18.2 GB | — | ~5.6 | Reference | 3.8 GB over |
| Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | 10.5 GB | 32K | 20 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 6.7 GB | 8.6 GB | 45K | 26 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 5.8 GB | 7.7 GB | 51K | 30 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 4.9 GB | 6.8 GB | 56K | 35 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 4.0 GB | 5.9 GB | 62K | 44 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 3.4 GB | 5.3 GB | 66K | 51 | −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
$ ollama pull granite4.1:8b $ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \ ollama run granite4.1:8b
The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.
01Download is 4.9 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 56K context on this card.