What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B requires approximately 16 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 E4B and how large is it?

Gemma 4 E4B is developed by google, a model with 8b 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 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 E4B by google — VRAM 16GB

Name: Gemma 4 E4B
Author: google

Gemma 4 E4B is an open-source language model by google. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.37.

Arxiv:2607.02770 Any-to-any Endpoints compatible Gemma4 Image-text-to-text Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B

Gemma 4 E4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 E4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	google
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	16.0 GB
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.5.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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