What are the hardware requirements for Shadows Gemma 3 1B?

Shadows Gemma 3 1B requires approximately 2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Shadows Gemma 3 1B and how large is it?

Shadows Gemma 3 1B is developed by Echo9Zulu, a model with 1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Shadows Gemma 3 1B?

Shadows Gemma 3 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Shadows Gemma 3 1B by Echo9Zulu — VRAM 2GB, 32K context

Name: Shadows Gemma 3 1B
Author: Echo9Zulu

Shadows Gemma 3 1B is an open-source language model by Echo9Zulu. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2GB, Context: 32K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:finetune:unsloth/ge... Base model:unsloth/gemma-3-1b-... Dataset:echo9zulu/interleave-g... Gemma3 text Reasoning Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Echo9Zulu/Shadows-Gemma-3-1B

Shadows Gemma 3 1B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Shadows Gemma 3 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Echo9Zulu/Shadows-Gemma-3-1B
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 1B It unsloth/gemma-3-1b-it
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2 GB
Updated	2026-07-07
Maintainer	Echo9Zulu
Model Type	gemma3_text
Model Files	2.0 GB
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262144

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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Gemma 3 1B It	32K / 2 GB	86328	22
Gemma3 1B Sft Reasoning 2	32K / 2.6 GB	34	0
SimulateAnything Gemma 3 1B V3	32K / GB	990	1
Gemma 3 1B It	32K / 2 GB	3959168	1053
Gemma 3 1B Pt	32K / 2 GB	4215	6
Gemma3 1B HendrycksMATH SFT	32K / 2 GB	461	0
EqualFrontiers Iko V2	32K / 2 GB	517	0
Forocoches Lm V2	32K / 2 GB	250	0
Makandal Multiple V2	32K / 2 GB	355	0
...mixed Olmo Posthoc Unmixed Sdf	32K / 2 GB	270	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Echo9Zulu/Shadows-Gemma-3-1B.