IBM Granite 4.2 8b Blooms to 27GB VRAM Despite 5.2GB Download

x8code · reddit · 2026-08-26

A user running IBM Granite 4.2 8b via Ollama on a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti observed the VRAM usage spike to 27GB, despite the model file being only 5.2GB. This prevents it from fitting on the GPU, prompting a question about whether this is expected behavior.

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