6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
436M
Weights (est.)
≈ 354 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 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-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:
pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-3-270m-6bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- google/gemma-3-270m (quantized)
- Vendor
- Google · Gemma
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 6-bit
- Licence
- gemma
- Downloads
- 18 in the last 30 days · 257 all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2025-08-09 · updated 2025-08-09 (1y ago)
- Tags
- gemma3_text
Other MLX builds of google/gemma-3-270m
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemma-3-270m-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 245 MB | 8 GB+ | 62 |
| gemma-3-270m-5bit | 5-bit | ≈ 300 MB | 8 GB+ | 27 |
| gemma-3-270m-6bit (this one) | 6-bit | ≈ 354 MB | 8 GB+ | 18 |
| gemma-3-270m-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 463 MB | 8 GB+ | 33 |
| gemma-3-270m-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 872 MB | 8 GB+ | 38 |