What are the hardware requirements for Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B?

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B requires approximately 18.5 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 Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B and how large is it?

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B is developed by grimjim, a model with 9b 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 Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B?

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B by grimjim — VRAM 18.5GB, 8K context

Name: Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B
Author: grimjim

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B is an open-source language model by grimjim. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 18.5GB, Context: 8K, License: gemma, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Merged Model Base model:princeton-nlp/gemma... Base model:ucla-agi/gemma-2-9b... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/grimjim/Gemma2-Nephilim-v3-9B

Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Considerations:

Though none of the components of this merge were trained for roleplay nor intended for it, the model can be used effectively in that role.

Additional Notes

This repo contains a merge of pre-trained language models created using mergekit. The model leans toward being creative, so adjust temperature upward or downward as desired.

LLM Name	Gemma2 Nephilim V3 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/grimjim/Gemma2-Nephilim-v3-9B
Base Model(s)	Gemma 2 9B It SPPO Iter3 Gemma 2 9B It SimPO UCLA-AGI/Gemma-2-9B-It-SPPO-Iter3 princeton-nlp/gemma-2-9b-it-SimPO
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	18.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	grimjim
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	3.1 GB: 1-of-5 5.0 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 5.0 GB: 4-of-5 0.5 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.43.3
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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