Gemma 4 E2B

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Gemma 4 12B is an incredibly good model for its size, particularly for vision tasks, and in the 4-bit quantization (7GB on disk) it runs on anything, even a modern tablet or phone”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-03

• “Very fast though, about 2x faster than Gemma 4 e2b on my CPU”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-30

• “could run in a browser even, mac neo Or a phone. I'm running Gemma 4 E2B in one of my apps on my 14 pro”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-29

• “I've found Gemma 4 to be incredibly precise and consistent with tool use”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “gemma scored ~8.0. 87x fewer parameters, on a cpu — the kind already in your laptop.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “even Gemma 4 E2B can give very useful image descriptions while at the same time taking questions as audio. It's also much faster than most of the current popular cloud based apps”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “I tried Gemma 4 E2B first, but it was just too slow on 4GB of RAM.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-12

• “my Pixel 10 Pro XL is getting ~22 tok/s on Gemma 4 E2B using the NPU, vs. 40 tok/s is what people are saying the MLX version gets on iPhone”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-06