Gemma · 12B · In LM Mini
Gemma 3 12B Instruct on a phone
Mac-first Gemma 3 — premium quality when you have unified memory to spare.
- Parameters
- 12B
- Typical Q4
- ~7.1 GB
- RAM to budget
- ~11 GB
- Engines
- MLX · GGUF
Get it running
google/gemma-3-12b-it. MLX 4-bit in LM Mini on Mac. Hugging Face: google/gemma-3-12b-it.
In the LM Mini on-device catalog.
Get LM Mini and load a model that actually fits — on-device, or via Connect to a PC.
Phones that can run it
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.
Tight (close other apps)
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.