What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 4B Novision?

Gemma 3 4B Novision requires approximately 7.8 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 4B Novision and how large is it?

Gemma 3 4B Novision is developed by gghfez, 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 4B Novision?

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

Gemma 3 4B Novision by gghfez — VRAM 7.8GB, 128K context

Name: Gemma 3 4B Novision
Author: gghfez

Gemma 3 4B Novision is an open-source language model by gghfez. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 7.8GB, Context: 128K, License: gemma, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/gghfez/gemma-3-4b-novision

Gemma 3 4B Novision Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 4B Novision
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/gghfez/gemma-3-4b-novision
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 4B It google/gemma-3-4b-it
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	7.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	gghfez
Model Type	gemma3_text
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.50.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262208
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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