What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit?

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit requires approximately 4.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit and how large is it?

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 5.1b 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 Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit?

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit by mlx-community — VRAM 4.1GB

Name: Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 5.1b LLM, VRAM: 4.1GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

5-bit 5bit Base model:google/gemma-4-e2b-... Base model:quantized:google/ge... Conversational Gemma4 Image-text-to-text Mlx Mlx-vlm Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e2b-it-5bit

Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 E2b It 5bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e2b-it-5bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 E2B It google/gemma-4-E2B-it
Model Size	5.1b
Required VRAM	4.1 GB
Updated	2026-09-13
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	4.1 GB
Quantization Type	5bit
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	gemma
Transformers Version	5.5.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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