What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 12B Penguin?

Gemma 4 12B Penguin requires approximately 16 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 12B Penguin and how large is it?

Gemma 4 12B Penguin is developed by glyd, 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 4 12B Penguin?

Gemma 4 12B Penguin is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 12B Penguin by glyd — VRAM 16GB

Name: Gemma 4 12B Penguin
Author: glyd

Gemma 4 12B Penguin is an open-source language model by glyd. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

8-bit Base model:google/gemma-4-12b-... Base model:quantized:google/ge... Compressed Consumer-gpu Conversational Dense Gemma4 unified Glyd Lossless Penguin Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/glyd/gemma-4-12B-penguin

Gemma 4 12B Penguin Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 12B Penguin
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/glyd/gemma-4-12B-penguin
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 12B It google/gemma-4-12B-it
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-10-22
Maintainer	glyd
Model Type	gemma4_unified
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-3 5.5 GB: 2-of-3 5.1 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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