Gemma · 9B · Desktop / import
Gemma 2 9B Instruct on a phone
Google’s 9B chat model — polished answers when you have Mac RAM or a GPU.
- Parameters
- 9B
- Typical Q4
- ~5.4 GB (Q4)
- RAM to budget
- ~8.2 GB
- Engines
- GGUF · MLX
Get it running
Gemma-2-9B-IT; still excellent instruction following. Hugging Face: google/gemma-2-9b-it.
Load in LM Studio or Ollama, then chat from the phone.
Get LM Mini and load a model that actually fits — on-device, or via Connect to a PC.
Phones that can run it
- Pixel 10 Pro XL Fits
- OnePlus 13 Fits
- ASUS ROG Phone 9 Fits
Tight (close other apps)
- Pixel 10 Pro Tight
- Pixel 9 Pro XL Tight
- Pixel 9 Pro Tight
- OnePlus 12 Tight
- Xiaomi 15 Tight