Granite 4.1 30B on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run Granite 4.1 30B?

54 pts

Barely: most of the model spills into system RAM

Heavy offload. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.8 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 3.6 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 3.6 tok/s
Prompt processing: 542 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 1.9 s
Largest safe context: —

Download Granite 4.1 30B

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: Q4_K_M. 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.

ollama run granite4.1:30b-q4_K_M

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

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from IBM. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-language-models (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-language-models

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the C grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	30.8 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	4.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	4.5 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	15.0 / 15
Total	54.3 / 100	54 ptsUsable (C) · 54 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 4.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Fit	Grade · points	Download
`Q2_K`	14.7 GB	8.0 GB	6.8 tok/s	Heavy offload	47 ptsUsable (C) · 47 of 100 points: Model quality 22.7/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 6.2/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	17.3 GB	8.0 GB	5.0 tok/s	Heavy offload	51 ptsUsable (C) · 51 of 100 points: Model quality 27.2/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 5.3/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	20.8 GB	8.0 GB	3.6 tok/s	Heavy offload	54 ptsUsable (C) · 54 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 4.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	23.6 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	9 ptsWon't run (F) · 9 of 100 points: Model quality 9.4/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	26.8 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	9 ptsWon't run (F) · 9 of 100 points: Model quality 9.6/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	33.7 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	9 ptsWon't run (F) · 9 of 100 points: Model quality 9.7/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	60.9 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	9 ptsWon't run (F) · 9 of 100 points: Model quality 9.7/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · part 1 of 5 (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

86 ptsExcellent (S) · 86 of 100 points: Model quality 31.4/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q5_K_M · 62.9 tok/s
84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q4_K_M · 42.9 tok/s
84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q4_K_M · 39.8 tok/s
83 ptsGreat (A) · 83 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 14.1/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q4_K_M · 35.1 tok/s
81 ptsGreat (A) · 81 of 100 points: Model quality 32.4/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.8/15, Memory use 9.2/15 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q8_0 · 38.8 tok/s
78 ptsGreat (A) · 78 of 100 points: Model quality 32.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 6.2/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M4 Pro (48 GB) Q6_K · 6.9 tok/s

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.