Highest Arena reference that fits

Granite 4.2 8BTight / slow

Q2_K · 3.4 GB weights · 4.9 GB total · 52–78 tok/s · Arena reference 1,290

Arena is a published configuration reference. Selected Q2_K is untested by this reference.

Arena reference details

Arena Text Overall · style-controlled

1,290Q2_K untested

granite-4.2-8b · published configuration reference · Q2_K not tested

Arena Text Overall (style-controlled), exact published entry granite-4.2-8b, 2026-10-08: reference rating 1,290.2. Published confidence bounds 1,279.1–1,301.4. 3,253 votes. Published granite-4.2-8b configuration reference. Reasoning mode is not disclosed by the Arena dataset. Tested precision, runtime and sampling settings are not disclosed in this dataset. Selected Q2_K has not been measured by this Arena entry. No quantization quality adjustment is applied.

Snapshot published 2026-10-08 · snapshot imported 2026-10-11 UTC · validated last-good data · manual refresh

Arena leaderboard dataset · Arena / lmarena-ai, Arena Leaderboard Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Selected Text Overall style-controlled rows; field names adapted, ratings unchanged. · dataset CC BY 4.0 · revision e16f90232986

Fastest that fits: LFM2.5 1.2B at 81–121 tok/s

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