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gemma-4-26b-a4b-mxfp8

mlx-community/gemma-4-26b-a4b-mxfp8
MXFP8 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
26B
Weights (est.)
≈ 28.0 GB
Mac memory (est.)
48 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-4-26b-a4b-mxfp8 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b
Vendor
Google · Gemma
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
MXFP8
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
40 in the last 30 days · 3.8K all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-04-02 · updated 2026-04-03 (7mo ago)
Tags
gemma4

Other MLX builds of google/gemma-4-26b-a4b

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
gemma-4-26b-a4b-4bit 4-bit ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 357
gemma-4-26b-a4b-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 94
gemma-4-26b-a4b-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 66
gemma-4-26b-a4b-5bit 5-bit ≈ 18.5 GB 24 GB+ 56
gemma-4-26b-a4b-6bit 6-bit ≈ 21.6 GB 32 GB+ 56
gemma-4-26b-a4b-8bit 8-bit ≈ 28.0 GB 48 GB+ 107
gemma-4-26b-a4b-mxfp8 (this one) MXFP8 ≈ 28.0 GB 48 GB+ 40
gemma-4-26b-a4b-bf16 bf16 ≈ 51.6 GB 64 GB+ 104