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gemma

LLMs unsloth Text gen 1 build Open weights 35k dl/mo

gemma is an open-weight language model from unsloth. gemma-2b-it (BF16) weighs 5.0 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.

What it is

Released byunsloth
Released2024-02-21
Parameters2.5B
VRAM5.0 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for gemma-2b-it (BF16)

5.0 GBweights, file size
18 MBcache per 1K tokens
859 MBruntime overhead, at least
8,192 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each
RTX 3060 12 GB38all 8K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB63all 8K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB116all 8K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB115all 8K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB166all 8K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB252all 8K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB478all 8K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB441all 8K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB545all 8K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified635all 8K107 GB
H200 141 GB838all 8K138 GB
B200 180 GB1000+all 8K176 GB
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each
16.0 GB
56.6 GB
87.1 GB
168.3 GB
3210.7 GB
6415.5 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What unsloth says about gemma

All notebooks are beginner friendly! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.

  • * Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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