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.