What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit?

Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit requires approximately 31.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit 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 Pt 8bit?

Gemma 3 27B 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 27B Pt 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 31.2GB

Name: Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 31.2GB, License: gemma, Quantized.

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-3-27b-pt-8bit

Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-27b-pt-8bit
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	31.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-6 5.3 GB: 2-of-6 5.3 GB: 3-of-6 5.3 GB: 4-of-6 5.3 GB: 5-of-6 4.7 GB: 6-of-6
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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Best Alternatives to Gemma 3 27B Pt 8bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
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
Gemma 3 27B It 6bit	0K / 24.1 GB	42	1
Medgemma 27B It 8bit	0K / 31.2 GB	199	4
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-pt-8bit.