What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit?

Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit requires approximately 14.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1b 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 Qat 8bit?

Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit 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 Qat 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 14.4GB

Name: Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

8bit Base model:finetune:opengvlab/... Base model:opengvlab/internvl3... Conversational Custom code Dataset:opengvlab/mmpr-v1.2 Endpoints compatible Gemma3 Image-text-to-text Instruct Internvl Mlx Multilingual Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-qat-8bit

Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 12B It Qat 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-it-qat-8bit
Base Model(s)	OpenGVLab/InternVL3-1B-Instruct OpenGVLab/InternVL3-1B-Instruct
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.4 GB: 2-of-3 3.7 GB: 3-of-3
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Padding Token	<pad>

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