Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs gemma-2-2b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
10.4 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
google · B
Params
2.6 B
Context
30d
224 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gemma-2-2b
Parameters 1.2 B 2.6 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length
Licence llama3.2 gemma
Commercial use Conditional Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 10,412,058 223,594
Downloads all time 92.8 M 25.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2024-07-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.4 M214 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gemma-2-2b

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-2-2b · fp16 12.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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