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Gemma 2 27B
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by Google
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RANKED #163 OF 232 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #258 OF 6,586 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 32 VOICES
Gemma 2 27B by Google is an open model built from the same research and technology used to create the [Gemini models](/models?q=gemini). Gemma models are well-suited for a variety of...
HAPPY9.7
4 mentions
SAD5.3
3 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 16 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Gemma 2 27B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
27B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF file is about 16 to 17 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM WITH 32 GB SYSTEM RAM
~$450 NEWIQ3_M to Q3_K quant with partial CPU offload, ~8 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ4_K_M, ~18 tok/s, full 8k context fully in VRAM
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB unified memory)
64 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$2800 USEDQ8_0 or FP16 unquantized, ~22 tok/s, full 8k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN GEMMA 2 27B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Gemma 2 27B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB unified memory) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~63 S★★★★★ | ~28 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~3.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~83 S★★★★★ | ~68 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.1 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~52 MIN★★★★★ | ~23 MIN★★★★★ | ~19 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~31 MIN★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~11 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Gemma 2 27B yet to call it. We found 32 posts but people did not say much either way.
27 POSTS · 5 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLOG · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with text models like this one.
GLM 5.3
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-06-27 · 264 UPVOTESGoogle released ultra lightweight Gemma 2 models, the 27B one surpasses llama3 70B and 9B variant surpasses Claude 3 Haiku
Google released ultra lightweight Gemma 2 models, the 27B one surpasses llama3 70B and 9B variant surpasses Claude 3 Haiku
- REDDIT · 2024-12-28 · 247 UPVOTESLocal Productivity Stack with Ollama
Local Productivity Stack with Ollama
- REDDIT · 2026-04-07 · 77 UPVOTESSeeing the Emotion Vectors Visualized in Gemma 2 2B
Seeing the Emotion Vectors Visualized in Gemma 2 2B
- REDDIT · 2025-03-17 · 74 UPVOTESAdvanced Chunking/Retrieving Strategies for Legal Documents
Advanced Chunking/Retrieving Strategies for Legal Documents
- REDDIT · 2024-12-20 · 60 UPVOTESComparison: Llama 3.2 vs Gemma 2 vs Mistral
Comparison: Llama 3.2 vs Gemma 2 vs Mistral
- REDDIT · 2024-12-06 · 48 UPVOTESGoogle released PaliGemma 2, new open vision language models based on Gemma 2 in 3B, 10B, 28B
Google released PaliGemma 2, new open vision language models based on Gemma 2 in 3B, 10B, 28B
- BLOG · 2025-08-09 · 32 UPVOTESFrom GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
OpenAI just released their new open-weight LLMs this week: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. And yes, thanks to some clever optimizations, they can run locally (but more about this later). This is the first time…
- BLOG · 2025-07-19 · 32 UPVOTESThe Big LLM Architecture Comparison
Last updated: Apr 2, 2026 (added Gemma 4 in section 23) It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how…
- BLOG · 2024-07-31 · 32 UPVOTESGoogle releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope
Google releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope
- REDDIT · 2024-10-31 · 29 UPVOTESIntroducing SmolLM2: The strongest 1B model and matching models twice the size such as Gemma-2, Qwen2.5 or Llama3.2. It's fully open.
Introducing SmolLM2: The strongest 1B model and matching models twice the size such as Gemma-2, Qwen2.5 or Llama3.2. It's fully open.
- REDDIT · 2025-02-06 · 27 UPVOTESComment in r/StableDiffusion
Comment in r/StableDiffusion
- REDDIT · 2024-06-27 · 20 UPVOTESGemma 2 now being tested in AI Studio
Gemma 2 now being tested in AI Studio