// Gemma · Embedding
embeddinggemma-2: VRAM & local deployment
744M parameters. About 1.0 GB at 4-bit and 2.1 GB at BF16.
released 2026-09-14licence: Commercial OKmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | Google · google |
|---|---|
| Family / series | Gemma · embeddinggemma-2 |
| Type | Embedding (feature-extraction) |
| Parameters | 744M Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Released weights | BF16 · 1.5 GBdownload |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 · Commercial OKPermissive licence (Apache-2.0 / MIT / CC-BY / OpenMDW): commercial use allowed. |
| Released | 2026-09-14 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Embedding models are small; memory grows with batch size and sequence length.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + overhead | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 1.5 GB | 2.1 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 0.8 GB | 1.4 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 0.5 GB | 1.0 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- Sentence Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- Ollama — in the official Ollama library · embeddinggemma-2
ollama run embeddinggemma-204Official repositories & quantised builds
1 official repo(s) from google.
- embeddinggemma-2 main
05Other Gemma models
All 48 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it | 25.8B / 4B | 18.3 GB | 2026-06-09 |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | 12B | 9.3 GB | 2026-06-04 |
| gemma-4-12B-it | 12B | 9.3 GB | 2026-05-23 |
| gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | 7.94B | 5.9 GB | 2026-04-30 |
| gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | 5.1B | 4.0 GB | 2026-04-29 |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | 25.8B / 4B | 18.3 GB | 2026-04-29 |
| gemma-4-31B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | 31.3B | 23.5 GB | 2026-04-28 |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | 25.8B / 4B | 18.3 GB | 2026-03-11 |
06Sources
Data checked 2026-10-06. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.