Granite 3.3 8B on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — Granite 3.3 8B @ Q8_0
Granite 3.3 8B 8B at Q8_0 needs ~9.8 GB (weights 8.1 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~40–65 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K · runs to its full 128K
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✓ Q8_09.8 GB~40–65 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q6_K8.0 GB~50–80 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q5_K_M7.1 GB~55–90 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M6.4 GB~65–110 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install granite3.3:8b
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Granite 3.3 8B: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3

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These share Granite 3.3 8B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM too:

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Llama 3.1 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.2 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd ⚠️ Partial GPU offload
Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mistral Nemo 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.2 Vision 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably

…and 7 more — see the Granite 3.3 8B page.

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