What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 270M It 4bit?

Gemma 3 270M It 4bit requires approximately 0.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 270M It 4bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 270M It 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 270m 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 270M It 4bit?

Gemma 3 270M 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 270M It 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 0.2GB, 32K context

Name: Gemma 3 270M It 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 270M It 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 270m LLM, VRAM: 0.2GB, Context: 32K, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

4-bit 4bit Base model:google/gemma-3-270m... Base model:quantized:google/ge... Conversational Gemma Gemma3 Gemma3 text Google Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-4bit

Gemma 3 270M It 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 270M It 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-4bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 270M It google/gemma-3-270m-it
Model Size	270m
Required VRAM	0.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3_text
Model Files	0.2 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.55.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262144
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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