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

Gemma 4 12B It requires approximately 23.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Gemma 4 12B It is developed by google, 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 It?

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

Gemma 4 12B It by google — VRAM 23.9GB

Name: Gemma 4 12B It
Author: google

Gemma 4 12B It is an open-source language model by google. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 23.9GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.5.

Arxiv:2607.02770 Any-to-any Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-4-12b Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Eval-results Gemma4 unified Image-text-to-text Region:us Safetensors

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

Gemma 4 12B It Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 12B It
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it
Base Model(s)	google/gemma-4-12B google/gemma-4-12B
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	23.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	google
Model Type	gemma4_unified
Model Files	23.9 GB
Model Architecture	Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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Quantized Models of the Gemma 4 12B It

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Gemma 4 12B OBLITERATED	423	34628	7 GB
Gemma 4 12B It OptiQ 4bit	41	9438	8 GB
... 4 12B It Qat Q4 0 Unquantized	9	4014	23 GB
Swarm Sovereign 12B	2	164	24 GB

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