Granite 4.0 H 350M on Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB) run Granite 4.0 H 350M?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 19.7 GB of 230 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 47.4 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 47.4 tok/s
Prompt processing: 1,029 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 1.0 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.

ollama run granite4:350m-h

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
KoboldCpp

How we choose: the files published for this model, which apps run in a container on a NAS without a graphics card (models run on its processor), and whether the model fits fully in the memory models can use. Details.

Download Granite 4.0 H 350M

Recommended for the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB): F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run granite4:350m-h

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m-GGUF:BF16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from IBM, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	5.4 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	2.0 / 15
Match score	47.4 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	19.2 GB	230 GB	331 tok/s	Runs great	8Basic quality (D) · 8 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	19.2 GB	230 GB	261 tok/s	Runs great	10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	19.3 GB	230 GB	202 tok/s	Runs great	11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	19.3 GB	230 GB	167 tok/s	Runs great	11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	19.3 GB	230 GB	140 tok/s	Runs great	11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	19.4 GB	230 GB	103 tok/s	Runs great	12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	19.7 GB	230 GB	47.4 tok/s	Runs great	12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 50/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 F16 · 230 tok/s · Runs great
12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 50/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 (16 GB) F16 · 49.8 tok/s · Runs great
12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 50/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 (16 GB) F16 · 87.5 tok/s · Runs great
12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 (24 GB) F16 · 87.5 tok/s · Runs great
12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) F16 · 199 tok/s · Runs great
12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 F16 · 295 tok/s · Runs great

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.