What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 3 4B It 8bit?

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit requires approximately 5.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 3 4B It 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 4b 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 4B It 8bit?

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 5.7GB

Name: Gemma 3 4B It 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 5.7GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

8bit Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-3-4b-p... 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-3-4b-it-8bit

Gemma 3 4B It 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 3 4B It 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-8bit
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 4B Pt google/gemma-3-4b-pt
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	5.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.7 GB: 2-of-2
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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