Gemma 2 9B Instruct

9B

Google Gemma 2

Google's compact Gemma 2 with sliding window attention. Punches above 9B.

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Consumer GPUMac / Apple Silicon

8K

Max Context

3

Quant Variants

GGUF Q8_0

Best Quality

99.8%

Accuracy Retained

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Quantization Variants

Per-quant VRAM, quality loss, and inference speed on RTX 4090

Measured = site benchmarks · Estimated = formula · Community = public reports

FormatLevelBPWVRAMPPL LossSpeedSourceActions
GGUFQ4_K_M4.856.5 GB3.3%132 tok/sEstimated
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GGUFQ8_08.510.2 GB0.2%108 tok/sEstimated
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AWQINT445.8 GB4.6%188 tok/sEstimated
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