What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 7B 8bit?

Gemma 7B 8bit requires approximately 9.4 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 7B 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 7B 8bit is developed by merve, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Gemma 7B 8bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Gemma 7B 8bit has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1137. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Gemma 7B 8bit by merve — VRAM 9.4GB, 8K context

Name: Gemma 7B 8bit
Author: merve

Gemma 7B 8bit is an open-source language model by merve. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 9.4GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22, ELO: 1137.

8-bit 8bit Bitsandbytes Endpoints compatible Gemma Pytorch Quantized Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/merve/gemma-7b-8bit

Gemma 7B 8bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1137 vs 1272 (so35) -10.6%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Gemma 7B 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

causal language model

LLM Name	Gemma 7B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/merve/gemma-7b-8bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 7B It alpindale/gemma-7b-it
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	9.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	merve
Model Type	gemma
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.4 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	GemmaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.1
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than merve/gemma-7b-8bit.