What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit?

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit requires approximately 7.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit and how large is it?

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 2.1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1318. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 7.1GB

Name: Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2.1b LLM, VRAM: 7.1GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39, ELO: 1318.

6-bit 6bit Base model:google/gemma-4-e4b-... Base model:quantized:google/ge... Conversational Gemma4 Image-text-to-text Mlx Mlx-vlm Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-it-6bit

Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1318 vs 1272 (so35) 3.6%

^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 4 E4b It 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 E4b It 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-it-6bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 E4B It google/gemma-4-E4B-it
Model Size	2.1b
Required VRAM	7.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	3.8 GB: 1-of-2 3.3 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	gemma
Transformers Version	5.5.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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