4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
268M
Weights (est.)
≈ 151 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-it-4bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- google/gemma-3-270m-it (quantized)
- Vendor
- Google · Gemma
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- gemma
- Downloads
- 1.6K in the last 30 days · 16K all time · 10 likes
- Published
- 2025-08-09 · updated 2025-08-14 (1y ago)
- Tags
- gemma3_text, gemma3, gemma, google
Other MLX builds of google/gemma-3-270m-it
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemma-3-270m-it-4bit (this one) | 4-bit | ≈ 151 MB | 8 GB+ | 1.6K |
| gemma-3-270m-it-4bit-DWQ | 4-bit DWQ | ≈ 151 MB | 8 GB+ | 41 |
| gemma-3-270m-it-5bit | 5-bit | ≈ 300 MB | 8 GB+ | 31 |
| gemma-3-270m-it-6bit | 6-bit | ≈ 354 MB | 8 GB+ | 27 |
| gemma-3-270m-it-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 463 MB | 8 GB+ | 752 |
| gemma-3-270m-it-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 872 MB | 8 GB+ | 192 |