MLX Community · First MLX build 27 Jun 2024

gemma-2-9b

MLX Text gemma

A 9.2B parameter text generation model, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to fp16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
9.2B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
gemma-2-9b-8bit
Memory needed
13 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
9.8 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
179
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
3
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · mlx-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-2-9b-8bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

3 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
gemma-2-9b-4bit 4-bit 5.2 GB 8 GB 138
gemma-2-9b-8bit 8-bit 9.8 GB 13 GB 179
gemma-2-9b-fp16 fp16 18.5 GB 23 GB 43

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.