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

Gemma 3 12B Pt 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 Pt 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 12B Pt 8bit 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 Pt 8bit?

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

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

Gemma 3 12B Pt 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

8bit 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-pt-8bit

Gemma 3 12B Pt 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 12B Pt 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-pt-8bit
Base Model(s)	google/gemma-3-12b google/gemma-3-12b
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
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	gemma
Transformers Version	4.50.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Translategemma 12B It 4bit	0K / 6.6 GB	894	4
Translategemma 12B It 8bit	0K / 12.5 GB	568	8
Gemma 3 12B It 4bit	0K / 8.1 GB	6832	6
Gemma 3 12B It 4bit DWQ	0K / 7.2 GB	98	2
Gemma 3 12B It 8bit	0K / 14.4 GB	242	2
Gemma 3 12B Pt 4bit	0K / 8.1 GB	63	1
Fallen Gemma3 12B V1	128K / 24.3 GB	18	24
Gemma 3 12B It	0K / 24.3 GB	2853479	723
ClipTagger 12B	0K / 13.6 GB	20	59
Safeword Casual V1 12B	0K / 24.3 GB	44	6

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