What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 2 9B 4bit?

Gemma 2 9B 4bit 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 Gemma 2 9B 4bit and how large is it?

Gemma 2 9B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Gemma 2 9B 4bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Gemma 2 9B 4bit has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1267. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Gemma 2 9B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 5.2GB, 8K context

Name: Gemma 2 9B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 2 9B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 5.2GB, Context: 8K, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26, ELO: 1267.

4bit Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-2-9b-4bit

Gemma 2 9B 4bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1267 vs 1272 (so35) -0.4%

^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 2 9B 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Model was converted to MLX format using mlx-lm version 0.15.0.

LLM Name	Gemma 2 9B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-2-9b-4bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 2 9B It Lora Yt Titles AdamLucek/gemma-2-9b-it-lora-yt-titles
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	5.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	5.2 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.42.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float32

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GWQ 9B Preview	8K / 18.6 GB	9	3
Gemma 2 9B 8bit	8K / 9.8 GB	178	9
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Gemma 2 9B Bnb 4bit	8K / 6.1 GB	10605	31
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/gemma-2-9b-4bit.