What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 27B It 6bit?

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit requires approximately 24.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 27B It 6bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 27b 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 27B It 6bit?

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 24.1GB

Name: Gemma 3 27B It 6bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 24.1GB, License: gemma, Quantized.

6bit Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-3-27b-... 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-3-27b-it-6bit

Gemma 3 27B It 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 27B It 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-27b-it-6bit
Base Model(s)	google/gemma-3-27b-pt google/gemma-3-27b-pt
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	24.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-5 5.4 GB: 2-of-5 5.4 GB: 3-of-5 5.4 GB: 4-of-5 2.5 GB: 5-of-5
Quantization Type	6bit
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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Best Alternatives to Gemma 3 27B It 6bit

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Translategemma 27B It 8bit	0K / 28.8 GB	467	5
Translategemma 27B It 4bit	0K / 15.2 GB	190	3
Gemma 3 27B It 4bit DWQ	0K / 16 GB	86	3
Gemma 3 Text 27B It 4bit	0K / 16 GB	81	3
Medgemma 27B It 4bit	0K / 16.9 GB	132	4
Gemma 3 27B Pt 4bit	0K / 16.9 GB	24	2
Gemma 3 27B It 4bit	0K / 16.9 GB	1578	13
Medgemma 27B It 8bit	0K / 31.2 GB	199	4
Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit	0K / 31.2 GB	23	1
Gemma 3 27B It 8bit	0K / 31.2 GB	407	7

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/gemma-3-27b-it-6bit.