Gemma · 27B · In LM Mini

Gemma 3 27B Instruct on a phone

Large Gemma 3 with vision — Mac-first in LM Mini (4-bit MLX), or a home GPU via Connect.

Parameters
27B
Typical Q4
~15.5 GB (4-bit)
RAM to budget
~22 GB
Engines
MLX · GGUF

Get it running

mlx-community/gemma-3-27b-it-4bit in LM Mini (~15.5 GB). Needs ~24 GB unified memory. Hugging Face: google/gemma-3-27b-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.