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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on NVIDIA A2 16GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A2 16GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

99.9 tok/s

TTFT

1938 ms

Safe context

49K

Memory

5.2 GB / 16.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well99.9 tok/s2819 ms98K
ChatCRuns well99.9 tok/s1057 ms24K
CodingCRuns well99.9 tok/s1938 ms49K
RAGCRuns well99.9 tok/s3524 ms98K
ReasoningCRuns well99.9 tok/s2291 ms49K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A2 16GB (16.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD31
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD31
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD31
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD32
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD32
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumD35

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--gemma-2-2b-it-gguf

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs gemma 2 2b it well

AppleMacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GBBudget pick
C134.6 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

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