Does gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliterated fit in 8GB of VRAM?
Not at these settings. No indexed quantization of gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliterated fits 8GB card at any context we compute, with q8_0 KV. The smallest shipped quantization is 7.72 GiB in weights alone, against 7.44 GiB usable. CPU offload can still run it, slowly.
Every quantization at every context
| Quant | Weights● | 4K◐ | 8K◐ | 16K◐ | 32K◐ | 64K◐ | 128K◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 25.02 GiB | 26.0 | 26.1 | 26.3 | 26.6 | 27.3 | 28.6 |
| I1-Q6_K | 21.08 GiB | 22.1 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 22.7 | 23.4 | 24.7 |
| Q6_K | 21.08 GiB | 22.1 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 22.7 | 23.4 | 24.7 |
| I1-Q5_K_M | 17.82 GiB | 18.8 | 18.9 | 19.1 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 21.4 |
| Q5_K_M | 17.82 GiB | 18.8 | 18.9 | 19.1 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 21.4 |
| I1-Q5_K_S | 16.75 GiB | 17.8 | 17.9 | 18.0 | 18.4 | 19.0 | 20.4 |
| Q5_K_S | 16.75 GiB | 17.8 | 17.9 | 18.0 | 18.4 | 19.0 | 20.4 |
| I1-Q4_K_M | 15.64 GiB | 16.7 | 16.8 | 16.9 | 17.2 | 17.9 | 19.2 |
| Q4_K_M | 15.64 GiB | 16.7 | 16.8 | 16.9 | 17.2 | 17.9 | 19.2 |
| I1-Q4_1 | 14.87 GiB | 15.9 | 16.0 | 16.1 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 18.5 |
| I1-Q4_K_S | 14.40 GiB | 15.4 | 15.5 | 15.7 | 16.0 | 16.7 | 18.0 |
| Q4_K_S | 14.40 GiB | 15.4 | 15.5 | 15.7 | 16.0 | 16.7 | 18.0 |
| I1-Q4_0 | 13.49 GiB | 14.5 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 15.1 | 15.8 | 17.1 |
| IQ4_XS | 13.10 GiB | 14.1 | 14.2 | 14.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 16.7 |
| I1-IQ4_XS | 12.96 GiB | 14.0 | 14.1 | 14.2 | 14.6 | 15.2 | 16.6 |
| I1-Q3_K_L | 12.88 GiB | 13.9 | 14.0 | 14.2 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 16.5 |
| Q3_K_L | 12.88 GiB | 13.9 | 14.0 | 14.2 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 16.5 |
| I1-Q3_K_M | 12.37 GiB | 13.4 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 16.0 |
| Q3_K_M | 12.37 GiB | 13.4 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 16.0 |
| I1-IQ3_M | 11.54 GiB | 12.6 | 12.7 | 12.8 | 13.1 | 13.8 | 15.1 |
| I1-IQ3_S | 11.38 GiB | 12.4 | 12.5 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 13.7 | 15.0 |
| I1-Q3_K_S | 11.38 GiB | 12.4 | 12.5 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 13.7 | 15.0 |
| Q3_K_S | 11.38 GiB | 12.4 | 12.5 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 13.7 | 15.0 |
| I1-IQ3_XS | 10.84 GiB | 11.9 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 12.4 | 13.1 | 14.4 |
| I1-IQ3_XXS | 10.55 GiB | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 12.2 | 12.8 | 14.1 |
| I1-Q2_K_S | 9.89 GiB | 10.9 | 11.0 | 11.2 | 11.5 | 12.2 | 13.5 |
| I1-Q2_K | 9.86 GiB | 10.9 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 11.5 | 12.1 | 13.5 |
| Q2_K | 9.86 GiB | 10.9 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 11.5 | 12.1 | 13.5 |
| I1-IQ2_M | 9.66 GiB | 10.7 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 11.3 | 11.9 | 13.3 |
| I1-IQ2_S | 9.20 GiB | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 11.5 | 12.8 |
| I1-IQ2_XS | 9.14 GiB | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 12.7 |
| I1-IQ2_XXS | 8.66 GiB | 9.7 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.3 | 10.9 | 12.3 |
| I1-IQ1_M | 8.07 GiB | 9.1 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 10.3 | 11.7 |
| I1-IQ1_S | 7.72 GiB | 8.7 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 9.3 | 10.0 | 11.3 |
Figures are GiB of total memory: weights plus KV cache plus compute buffer and backend overhead. Weights and KV are near-exact; the overhead term is modeled. Hover any cell for the breakdown.
Why there are no speeds on this page
A capacity is not a card. Whether a model fits depends only on memory, so every figure above holds for any 8GB accelerator. How fast it runs depends on memory bandwidth, which varies several-fold between cards of the same capacity — so putting a tokens-per-second number here would be inventing one. Pick a specific card from hardware and the speed column appears.
Why other calculators disagree
A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate ignores two things that dominate at long context. First, the weights themselves are not the nominal rate — quantizations are mixtures, so the real file is consistently larger than the label implies. Second, most of this model's layers cache only a 1,024-token window rather than the full context.