What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 12B It 8bit?

Gemma 4 12B It 8bit requires approximately 12.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 12B It 8bit and how large is it?

Gemma 4 12B It 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 4 12B It 8bit?

Gemma 4 12B It 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 12B It 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 12.7GB

Name: Gemma 4 12B It 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Gemma 4 12B It 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 12.7GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

8-bit 8bit Conversational En Gemma4 unified Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-12B-it-8bit

Gemma 4 12B It 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 12B It 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-12B-it-8bit
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	12.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	gemma4_unified
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.4 GB: 2-of-3 2.0 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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