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Gemma 4 E2B

Gemma 4 E2B needs roughly 1.0GB VRAM at Q4 quantization (4.0GB at FP16). 60 GPUs we track can run it fully in VRAM at 8k context.

Google2B params125k contextApache 2.0Commercial use ok

VRAM at each quantization

Assumes 8k context. KV cache grows linearly with context length.

QuantWeightsKV cacheTotal
FP164.0 GB0.40 GB4.9 GB
Q82.0 GB0.40 GB2.7 GB
Q6_K1.5 GB0.40 GB2.1 GB
Q5_K_M1.3 GB0.40 GB1.9 GB
Q4_K_M1.0 GB0.40 GB1.6 GB
Q3_K_M0.8 GB0.40 GB1.4 GB
Q2_K0.6 GB0.40 GB1.1 GB

Benchmarks

GPUs that run Gemma 4 E2B natively (60)

Plus 1 GPUs that run it with CPU offload (slower)
Hugging Face ↗Ollama ↗Released 2026-04-02