What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 12B It Bf16?

Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 requires approximately 26.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 and how large is it?

Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 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 Bf16?

Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 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 Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 26.4GB

Name: Gemma 3 12B It Bf16
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 26.4GB, License: gemma, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-bf16

Gemma 3 12B It Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 12B It Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-bf16
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 12B Pt google/gemma-3-12b-pt
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	26.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-5 5.3 GB: 2-of-5 5.3 GB: 3-of-5 5.4 GB: 4-of-5 5.1 GB: 5-of-5
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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Fallen Gemma3 12B V1	128K / 24.3 GB	18	24
Gemma 3 12B It	0K / 24.3 GB	2853479	723
Gemma 3 12B It	0K / 24.3 GB	25823	17
Translategemma 12B It	0K / 24.3 GB	12161	324
Gemma 3 12B It Heretic V2	0K / 24.3 GB	11327	88
Gemma 3 12B It Heretic	0K / 24.3 GB	33584	92
Gemma 3 12B Pt	0K / 24.3 GB	36842	91
Gemma 3 12B It Law Fine Tuned	0K / 24.3 GB	74	0
Gemma 3 12B It FP8 Dynamic	0K / 13.6 GB	82	3
Gemma 3 12B Pt	0K / 24.3 GB	6106	5

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-bf16.