What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt?

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt requires approximately 23.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt and how large is it?

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt is developed by ToastyPigeon, a model with 12b 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 Starshine 12B Alt?

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt by ToastyPigeon — VRAM 23.4GB, 128K context

Name: Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt
Author: ToastyPigeon

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt is an open-source language model by ToastyPigeon. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 23.4GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Merged Model Base model:allura-org/gemma-3-... Base model:google/gemma-3-12b-... Base model:google/gemma-3-12b-... Base model:toastypigeon/gemma-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gemma3 text Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Starshine-12B-Alt

Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 Starshine 12B Alt
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Starshine-12B-Alt
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 Glitter 12B Gemma 3 Confetti 12B Gemma 3 12B It Gemma 3 12B Pt allura-org/Gemma-3-Glitter-12B ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Confetti-12B google/gemma-3-12b-it google/gemma-3-12b-pt
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	23.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-09
Maintainer	ToastyPigeon
Model Type	gemma3_text
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 3.8 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.50.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262145
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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