What are the hardware requirements for Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit?

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit requires approximately 2.7 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 Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit and how large is it?

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit?

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.7GB, 8K context

Name: Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 2.7GB, Context: 8K, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

8bit Base model:finetune:google/cod... Base model:google/codegemma-1.... Endpoints compatible Gemma Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/codegemma-1.1-2b-8bit

Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

To access CodeGemma on Hugging Face, a user is required to review and agree to Google’s usage license.

LLM Name	Codegemma 1.1 2B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/codegemma-1.1-2b-8bit
Base Model(s)	google/codegemma-1.1-2b google/codegemma-1.1-2b
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	2.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma
Model Files	2.7 GB
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	GemmaForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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