What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 2 2B Shell?

Gemma 2 2B Shell requires approximately 5.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 2 2B Shell and how large is it?

Gemma 2 2B Shell is developed by amills157, a model with 2b 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 Gemma 2 2B Shell?

Gemma 2 2B Shell is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 2 2B Shell by amills157 — VRAM 5.2GB, 8K context

Name: Gemma 2 2B Shell
Author: amills157

Gemma 2 2B Shell is an open-source language model by amills157. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 5.2GB, Context: 8K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/amills157/gemma-2-2b-shell

Gemma 2 2B Shell Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 2 2B Shell
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/amills157/gemma-2-2b-shell
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	5.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	amills157
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.48.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float16

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