Can I run granite-switch-4.1-8b on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

Yes

Its published weights (17.6 GB) fit in the 86.4 GB an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can use, with room for an unknown amount of context.

Full analysis of granite-switch-4.1-8b Everything that runs on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Each file of granite-switch-4.1-8b (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

File	Size	On RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	17.6 GB	Fits	not known	not known
4-bit (estimate)	4.94 GB	Fits	not known	not known

granite-switch-4.1-8b on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Probably, at 4-bit
RTX 3090Probably, at 4-bit
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 3060 12 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 4060Probably, at 4-bit
RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellYes
Mac with 32 GBProbably, at 4-bit
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

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Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.