What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 E4b 4bit?

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit requires approximately 5.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 E4b 4bit and how large is it?

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.7b 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 E4b 4bit?

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 5.2GB

Name: Gemma 4 E4b 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 5.2GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-4bit

Gemma 4 E4b 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 E4b 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-4bit
Base Model(s)	google/gemma-4-e4b google/gemma-4-e4b
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	5.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	5.2 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.5.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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