What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 12B It 4bit?

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit requires approximately 8.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 12B It 4bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 12B It 4bit?

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 8.1GB

Name: Gemma 3 12B It 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

4bit Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-3-12b-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Gemma3 Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-4bit

Gemma 3 12B It 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 12B It 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-4bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 12B Pt google/gemma-3-12b-pt
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 2.7 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration
License	gemma
Transformers Version	4.50.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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