What are the hardware requirements for ThinkerGemma?

ThinkerGemma 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 ThinkerGemma and how large is it?

ThinkerGemma is developed by minchyeom, 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 ThinkerGemma?

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

ThinkerGemma by minchyeom — VRAM 5.2GB, 8K context

Name: ThinkerGemma
Author: minchyeom

ThinkerGemma is an open-source language model by minchyeom. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 5.2GB, Context: 8K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-2-2b-i... Conversational Dataset:starsnatched/thinker-f... En Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/minchyeom/ThinkerGemma

ThinkerGemma Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ThinkerGemma
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/minchyeom/ThinkerGemma
Base Model(s)	Gemma 2 2B It google/gemma-2-2b-it
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	5.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	minchyeom
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float16

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