What are the hardware requirements for Chimera X 26B A4B?

Chimera X 26B A4B requires approximately 53.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Chimera X 26B A4B and how large is it?

Chimera X 26B A4B is developed by Vortex5, a model with 26b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Chimera X 26B A4B?

Chimera X 26B A4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Chimera X 26B A4B by Vortex5 — VRAM 53.1GB

Name: Chimera X 26B A4B
Author: Vortex5

Chimera X 26B A4B is an open-source language model by Vortex5. Features: 26b LLM, VRAM: 53.1GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

Base model:darkhn/gemma-4-26b-... Base model:gryphe/pantheon-rea... Base model:merge:darkhn/gemma-... Base model:merge:gryphe/panthe... Base model:merge:vortex5/g4-mo... Base model:merge:zerofata/g4-m... Base model:vortex5/g4-moonligh... Base model:zerofata/g4-meromer... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gemma4 Image-text-to-text Merge Mergekit Region:us Roleplay Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Chimera-X-26B-A4B

Chimera X 26B A4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Chimera X 26B A4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Chimera-X-26B-A4B
Base Model(s)	Darkhn/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT Gryphe/Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1 G4 MeroMero 26B A4B G4 Moonlight Dusk 26B A4B Darkhn/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT Gryphe/Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1 zerofata/G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B Vortex5/G4-Moonlight-Dusk-26B-A4B
Model Size	26b
Required VRAM	53.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-12
Maintainer	Vortex5
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	4.6 GB: 1-of-11 4.9 GB: 2-of-11 4.9 GB: 3-of-11 4.9 GB: 4-of-11 4.9 GB: 5-of-11 4.9 GB: 6-of-11 4.9 GB: 7-of-11 4.9 GB: 8-of-11 4.9 GB: 9-of-11 4.9 GB: 10-of-11 4.4 GB: 11-of-11
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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