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IBMGranite Switch 4.1 30B Preview

Model Summary: Granite Switch 4.1 30B Preview is a modular LLM built on IBM Granite 4.1 30B with embedded adapters from the Granite Libraries collection.

chatcodingreasoningtool_usemultilingual
32.24B
Parameters
128K
Context length
1
Benchmarks
14
Quantizations
0
Architecture
Dense
Released
2026-04-29
Layers
65
KV Heads
8
Head Dim
128
Family
granite

Quantization Options

Context length:
QuantBitsVRAM @ 16KQuality
IQ3_XXS3.25
16.6 GB
13.6 + 3.0 KV
low
IQ3_XS3.5
17.6 GB
14.6 + 3.0 KV
low
Q3_K_S3.64
18.2 GB
15.2 + 3.0 KV
low
IQ3_M3.76
18.7 GB
15.6 + 3.0 KV
low
Q3_K_M4
19.7 GB
16.6 + 3.0 KV
low
Q3_K_L4.3
20.9 GB
17.8 + 3.0 KV
moderate
IQ4_XS4.46
21.5 GB
18.5 + 3.0 KV
moderate
Q4_K_S4.67
22.4 GB
19.3 + 3.0 KV
moderate
Q4_K_M4.89
23.2 GB
20.2 + 3.0 KV
good
Q5_K_S5.57
26.0 GB
22.9 + 3.0 KV
good
Q5_K_M5.7
26.5 GB
23.5 + 3.0 KV
good
Q6_K6.56
30.0 GB
26.9 + 3.0 KV
excellent
Q8_08.5
37.8 GB
34.7 + 3.0 KV
lossless
FP1616
68.0 GB
65.0 + 3.0 KV
lossless

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▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
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GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

NVIDIA RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM • 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
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NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB VRAM • 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA
$999
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NVIDIA RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM • 936 GB/s
NVIDIA
$850
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AMD RX 7900 XTX
24 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
AMD
$999
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Apple M4 Pro (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 273 GB/s
APPLE
$1399
NVIDIA L4 24GB
24 GB VRAM • 300 GB/s
NVIDIA
$2500
NVIDIA A10 24GB
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
$3500
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
Apple M2 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$999
Apple M3 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$999
Apple M4 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 120 GB/s
APPLE
$699
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB
24 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla P10
24 GB VRAM • 694 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla P40
24 GB VRAM • 347 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
24 GB VRAM • 672 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4000
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive
24 GB VRAM • 624 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4000
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM • 936 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1499
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NVIDIA A10 PCIe
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA A10G
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA RTX A5000
24 GB VRAM • 768 GB/s
NVIDIA
$2500
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA L40 CNX
24 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5000
NVIDIA L40G
24 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5000
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
AMD
$999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2
24 GB VRAM • 1340 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1999
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NVIDIA TITAN RTX
24 GB VRAM • 672 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA A30 PCIe
24 GB VRAM • 933 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA A30X
24 GB VRAM • 1220 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA PG506-207
24 GB VRAM • 933 GB/s
NVIDIA
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Build Hardware for Granite Switch 4.1 30B Preview
▸ SPEC SHEET

Granite Switch 4.1 30B Preview — 32.24B Dense.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
32.24B
ARCHITECTURE
Dense Transformer
CONTEXT LENGTH
128K tokens
CAPABILITIES
chat, coding, reasoning, tool_use, multilingual
RELEASE DATE
2026-04-29
PROVIDER
IBM
FAMILY
granite
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
IQ3_XXS3.2513.6 GB82%
IQ3_XS3.514.6 GB84%
Q3_K_S3.6415.2 GB85%
IQ3_M3.7615.6 GB86%
Q3_K_M416.6 GB88%
Q3_K_L4.317.8 GB90%
IQ4_XS4.4618.5 GB92%
Q4_K_S4.6719.3 GB93%
Q4_K_M4.8920.2 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.5722.9 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.723.5 GB96%
Q6_K6.5626.9 GB97%
Q8_08.534.7 GB100%
FP161665.0 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
BigCodeBench36.1
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4090
24 GB · 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB · 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090
24 GB · 936 GB/s
AMD RX 7900 XTX
24 GB · 960 GB/s
Apple M4 Pro (24GB)
24 GB · 273 GB/s
NVIDIA L4 24GB
24 GB · 300 GB/s
NVIDIA A10 24GB
24 GB · 600 GB/s
Apple M2 (24GB)
24 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M3 (24GB)
24 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M4 (24GB)
24 GB · 120 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB
24 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla P10
24 GB · 694 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla P40
24 GB · 347 GB/s
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
24 GB · 672 GB/s
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive
24 GB · 624 GB/s