MLX Community · First MLX build 17 Mar 2025
gemma-3-text-12b-pt
MLX
Text gemma
A 13B parameter text generation model, with one MLX build at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 13B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit gemma-3-text-12b-pt-4bit
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 7.2 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 64 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 GB at 4-bit
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64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-3-text-12b-pt-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| gemma-3-text-12b-pt-4bit | 4-bit | 7.2 GB | 11 GB | 64 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.