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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
9.78B
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

Context length:
QuantBitsVRAM @ 16KQuality
Q4_K_M4.89
8.0 GB
6.5 + 1.5 KV
good
Q5_K_S5.57
8.8 GB
7.3 + 1.5 KV
good
Q5_K_M5.7
9.0 GB
7.5 + 1.5 KV
good
Q6_K6.56
10.0 GB
8.5 + 1.5 KV
excellent
Q8_08.5
12.4 GB
10.9 + 1.5 KV
lossless
FP1616
21.5 GB
20.0 + 1.5 KV
lossless

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Benchmarks (6)

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

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GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
$399
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NVIDIA RTX 4060
8 GB VRAM • 272 GB/s
NVIDIA
$299
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NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 608 GB/s
NVIDIA
$499
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NVIDIA RTX 3070
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$325
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NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$250
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NVIDIA RTX 3050 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
NVIDIA
$249
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AMD RX 7600
8 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
$269
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AMD RX 6650 XT
8 GB VRAM • 280 GB/s
AMD
$399
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Intel Arc A750
8 GB VRAM • 512 GB/s
INTEL
$199
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Apple M1 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 68 GB/s
APPLE
$499
Apple M2 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$599
Apple M3 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$599
NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 496 GB/s
NVIDIA
$280
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 2080
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$260
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NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$240
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NVIDIA RTX 2070
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$200
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NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$180
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NVIDIA GTX 1080
8 GB VRAM • 320 GB/s
NVIDIA
$130
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NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
NVIDIA
$120
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NVIDIA GTX 1070
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
NVIDIA
$100
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NVIDIA RTX 3060 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
NVIDIA
$280
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD RX 6600 XT
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
AMD
$200
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD RX 6600
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
AMD
$165
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD RX 5700 XT
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
AMD
$150
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD RX 5700
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
AMD
$130
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
Intel Arc A580
8 GB VRAM • 512 GB/s
INTEL
$179
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$379
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 5060
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$299
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA Tesla K8
8 GB VRAM • 160 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M60
8 GB VRAM • 160 GB/s
NVIDIA

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Bamba 9B v2 — 9.78B Dense.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
9.78B
ARCHITECTURE
Dense Transformer
CONTEXT LENGTH
256K tokens
CAPABILITIES
chat
RELEASE DATE
2025-04-29
PROVIDER
IBM
FAMILY
other
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
Q4_K_M4.896.5 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.577.3 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.77.5 GB96%
Q6_K6.568.5 GB97%
Q8_08.510.9 GB100%
FP161620.0 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
MMLU-PRO28.8
MATH15.2
IFEval68.6
BBH31.9
GPQA5.3
MUSR6.6
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
8 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 4060
8 GB · 272 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti
8 GB · 608 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3070
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3050 8GB
8 GB · 224 GB/s
AMD RX 7600
8 GB · 288 GB/s
AMD RX 6650 XT
8 GB · 280 GB/s
Intel Arc A750
8 GB · 512 GB/s
Apple M1 (8GB)
8 GB · 68 GB/s
Apple M2 (8GB)
8 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M3 (8GB)
8 GB · 100 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER
8 GB · 496 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2080
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER
8 GB · 448 GB/s