Gemma 4 5.1B (2B active) E2B
on M5 Max 128GB · mlx-vlm · 4,096 ctx
Use cases
vision
Summary
User benchmarks Gemma 4 E2B at 205 t/s decode at 4k context on an Apple M5 Max with 128 GB unified memory.
Setup is mlx-vlm 0.4.4 with MLX 0.31.1, 4bit weights, and TurboQuant 2.5-bit KV cache quantization; the model uses 4.7 GB at 4k.
Decode falls to 78 t/s at 256k context. TurboQuant gives +15-19% at 128-256k on larger models but is negative on E2B. The same report also covers Gemma 4 E4B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Gemma 4 31B, Qwen 3.5 2B and Qwen 3.5 4B.