Granite-4.2-8B-ROCmFPX-Q8_0-GGUF

Granite 4.2-8B — ROCmFPX 8-bit reference layout for AMD Strix Halo (gfx1151)

I built this reference 8-bit ROCmFPX quantization of ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b on my Strix Halo box.

The file

Type histogram, read from the finished file:

Q8_0_ROCMFPX x282, F32 x81

What this build type is — and what it protects

Q8_0_ROCMFPX (ftype 111) is my reference 8-bit ROCmFPx layout: every weight tensor — including token_embd.weight and output.weight — goes into the ROCmFPX 8-bit UE4M3-scale reference format. Nothing is held back at plain Q8_0 (contrast with my _AGENT tier, which keeps the output-side tensors at plain Q8_0 for tool-call coherence). At 8 bits the quality gap between the two tiers is small; take this one for size/speed, take _AGENT if you serve tools.

tie_word_embeddings is false on Granite 4.2, so output.weight is a real standalone tensor. I verified the head types by reading the finished file back by exact tensor name (token_embd.weight and output.weight — exact match, not substring).

How I built it

1. Manifest gate: pulled ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b file list from the HF API with ?blobs=true and recorded the real shard bytes (4 safetensors shards, 17,583,228,032 bytes total — never the index total_size).
2. Downloaded and byte-verified all 17 files against that manifest.
3. Converted with convert_hf_to_gguf.py from my rocmfpx-dspark-halo tree (4eca07e), --outtype bf16 → 363 tensors, 17,587,421,248 bytes.
4. Quantized with the same tree's llama-quantize at 16 threads. Dry-run estimate 8,647.27 MiB; the real file landed within a few MiB of it.

Measured on my box

amd-halo: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo, gfx1151), ROCm 7.13.0, 125 GiB unified memory. Functional check, not an idle-box benchmark: 8 other llama-server seats were live on this machine while I tested. Server flags: -dev ROCm0 -fa on -ngl 999 --no-mmap -fit off -np 1 -b 2048 -c 8192 -t 16 --jinja, port 8497, greedy:

Sample output (greedy, prompt "Explain in one clear sentence what granite rock is primarily made of."):

Answer: Granite is primarily made of quartz, feldspar, and mica. (continued with its own follow-up Q/A scaffolding — real structured generation)

⚠️ Stock llama.cpp will not load this file

Q8_0_ROCMFPX is a custom tensor format that exists only in the ROCmFPX fork of llama.cpp.

llama-server -m granite-4.2-8b-Q8_0_ROCMFPX.gguf -dev ROCm0 -fa on -ngl 999 -c 8192

Not measured

No benchmark sweeps, no context sweeps, no perplexity — per my build discipline this is the 3-tier publish set and one functional check per tier.

Provenance & license

Converted and quantized from ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b (Apache 2.0). This quantized build is released under the same Apache 2.0 license. The ROCmFPX runtime is a third-party fork; its own terms apply to the runtime, not to these weights.

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All my quants of Granite-4.2-8B

All measured by me on a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo, gfx1151, ROCm 7.2.4) with the whole model on GPU (-ngl 999), 128-token greedy generation. A dash means I haven't measured that one yet — I won't put a number in a card I didn't measure.

Base model: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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