What are the hardware requirements for Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit?

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit and how large is it?

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit?

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3.1GB

Name: Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, License: gemma, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

8bit Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Mlx Paligemma Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/paligemma-3b-mix-224-8bit

Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Paligemma 3B Mix 224 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/paligemma-3b-mix-224-8bit
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	paligemma
Model Files	3.1 GB
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	PaliGemmaForConditionalGeneration
License	gemma
Transformers Version	4.41.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	257216
Torch Data Type	float32

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