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IBM/Dense

IBMBamba 9B v2

We introduce Bamba-9B-v2, a decoder-only language model based on the Mamba-2 architecture and is designed to handle a wide range of text generation tasks. Bamba v2 is trained for an additional 1T tokens that significantly improves on Bamba v1.

chat
9B
Parameters
256K
Context length
6
Benchmarks
6
Quantizations
0
Architecture
Dense
Released
2025-04-29
Layers
32
KV Heads
8
Head Dim
128
Family
other

Quantization Options

QuantBitsVRAMQuality
Q4_K_M4.896.0 GBgood
Q5_K_S5.576.8 GBgood
Q5_K_M5.76.9 GBgood
Q6_K6.567.9 GBexcellent
Q8_08.510.1 GBlossless
FP161618.5 GBlossless

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Benchmarks (6)

IFEval68.6
BBH31.9
MMLU-PRO28.8
MATH15.2
MUSR6.6
GPQA5.3

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▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
DOCS ↗
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
$ollama run other:9b-q4_K_M

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GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

NVIDIA RTX 3050 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 168 GB/s
NVIDIA
$169
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Intel Arc A380
6 GB VRAM • 186 GB/s
INTEL
$129
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NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$150
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NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$150
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NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
$80
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA Tesla C2070
6 GB VRAM • 143 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla C2075
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla C2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2070
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2075
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla X2070
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla X2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla K20X
6 GB VRAM • 250 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm
6 GB VRAM • 250 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA
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NVIDIA
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NVIDIA
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
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AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
$90
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AMD Radeon RX 5600M
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
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Build Hardware for Bamba 9B v2
▸ SPEC SHEET

Bamba 9B v2 — 9B Dense.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
9B
ARCHITECTURE
Dense Transformer
CONTEXT LENGTH
256K tokens
CAPABILITIES
chat
RELEASE DATE
2025-04-29
PROVIDER
IBM
FAMILY
other
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
Q4_K_M4.896.0 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.576.8 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.76.9 GB96%
Q6_K6.567.9 GB97%
Q8_08.510.1 GB100%
FP161618.5 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
MMLU-PRO28.8
MATH15.2
IFEval68.6
BBH31.9
GPQA5.3
MUSR6.6
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 3050 6GB
6 GB · 168 GB/s
Intel Arc A380
6 GB · 186 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GB
6 GB · 336 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB · 336 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB · 192 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2070
6 GB · 143 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2075
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2070
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2075
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla X2070
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla X2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s