What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 R1 4B V1?

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 requires approximately 8.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 and how large is it?

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 is developed by TheDrummer, a model with 4b 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 Gemma 3 R1 4B V1?

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 by TheDrummer — VRAM 8.6GB

Name: Gemma 3 R1 4B V1
Author: TheDrummer

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 is an open-source language model by TheDrummer. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.6GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-3-4b-i... Gemma3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheDrummer/Gemma-3-R1-4B-v1

Gemma 3 R1 4B V1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 R1 4B V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheDrummer/Gemma-3-R1-4B-v1
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 4B It google/gemma-3-4b-it
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	TheDrummer
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration
Transformers Version	4.55.0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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