Yes — with 31.0 GB to spare

Gemma 4 31B at Q4_K_M fits your CPU only · DDR5 dual-channel entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 2.1 tokens per second. Past 206K the KV cache pushes it over — quantise the cache to q8_0, or step down a quantisation, to go longer.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 17.6 GB Apache 2.0 Released 2 Apr 2026 Vision

The dense flagship: strongest maths of the 24–32 GB class (89% AIME), clean prose, vision. Q4 is a tight 24 GB fit.

What hardware do I need for Gemma 4 31B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 17.6 GB
Weights 17.6 GB KV cache @ 8K 2.03 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 31.0 GB of 51.2 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 31.0 GB 33.6 GB 120K 1.2 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 23.9 GB 26.5 GB 165K 1.6 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 20.7 GB 23.3 GB 186K 1.8 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 17.6 GB 20.2 GB 206K 2.1 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 14.2 GB 16.9 GB 227K 2.6 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 12.2 GB 14.8 GB 240K 3.1 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model interleaves sliding-window layers (1024 tokens, 10 of 60 layers global), which is why its cache barely grows with context.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf google/gemma-4-31B-it:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 17.6 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03There is room to go to 206K context on this card.
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