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gemma-3-12b-pt-bf16

mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-pt-bf16
Vision + text · transformers
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
13B
Weights (est.)
≈ 26.4 GB
Mac memory (est.)
32 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-3-12b-pt-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
google/gemma-3-12b
Vendor
Google · Gemma
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
gemma
Downloads
31 in the last 30 days · 943 all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-03-12 · updated 2025-03-18 (1y ago)
Tags
gemma3

Other MLX builds of google/gemma-3-12b

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
gemma-3-12b-pt-bf16 (this one) bf16 ≈ 26.4 GB 32 GB+ 31
gemma-3-12b-pt-4bit 4-bit — — 68
gemma-3-12b-pt-8bit 8-bit — — 30
gemma-3-12b-pt-6bit 6-bit — — 29