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Gemma 3 12B
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RANKED #141 OF 247 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #231 OF 6,458 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 84 VOICES
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities,...
HAPPY8.6
6 mentions
SAD6.4
3 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 62 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Gemma 3 12B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
12B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF is about 6.7 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$280 USEDQ4_K_M, ~38 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super
16 GB VRAM
~$780 NEWQ6_K or Q8_0, ~65 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 NEWFP16 or Q8_0, ~95 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN GEMMA 3 12B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Gemma 3 12B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~13 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~39 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~16 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~84 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~6.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Gemma 3 12B yet to call it. We found 84 posts but people did not say much either way.
64 POSTS · 20 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · LEMMY · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-01-06 · 445 UPVOTESLTX-2 on RTX 3070 mobile (8GB VRAM) AMAZING
LTX-2 on RTX 3070 mobile (8GB VRAM) AMAZING
- REDDIT · 2025-08-07 · 124 UPVOTESBest models under 16GB
Best models under 16GB
- REDDIT · 2026-05-27 · 106 UPVOTESI ran 8 open-weight models as agents in a persistent MMO for 10 days. Here's the 93k event dataset and some things that I learned
I ran 8 open-weight models as agents in a persistent MMO for 10 days. Here's the 93k event dataset and some things that I learned
- REDDIT · 2026-02-01 · 97 UPVOTESZ image turbo bf16 vs flux 2 klein fp8 (text-to-image)
Z image turbo bf16 vs flux 2 klein fp8 (text-to-image)
- REDDIT · 2026-02-23 · 96 UPVOTESI benchmarked 17 local LLMs on real MCP tool calling — single-shot AND agentic loop. The difference is massive.
I benchmarked 17 local LLMs on real MCP tool calling — single-shot AND agentic loop. The difference is massive.
- REDDIT · 2026-08-05 · 87 UPVOTESScenema Audio Comes to ComfyUI, Runs on 8GB VRAM
Scenema Audio Comes to ComfyUI, Runs on 8GB VRAM
- REDDIT · 2026-01-09 · 76 UPVOTESLTX2 Lipsync With Upscale AND SUPER SMALL GEMMA MODEL
LTX2 Lipsync With Upscale AND SUPER SMALL GEMMA MODEL
- REDDIT · 2025-12-02 · 76 UPVOTESMistral 3 Family Released (10 Models): Large 3 hits 1418 Elo, Ministral 3 (3B/8B/14B) beats Qwen-VL. Full Benchmarks & Specs.
Mistral 3 Family Released (10 Models): Large 3 hits 1418 Elo, Ministral 3 (3B/8B/14B) beats Qwen-VL. Full Benchmarks & Specs.
- REDDIT · 2026-04-05 · 66 UPVOTESTesting LTX-Video 2.3 — 11 Models, PainterLTXV2 Workflow
Testing LTX-Video 2.3 — 11 Models, PainterLTXV2 Workflow
- REDDIT · 2026-07-11 · 62 UPVOTESINT4 Convrot ComfyUI Models: A Cornucopia of Choices
INT4 Convrot ComfyUI Models: A Cornucopia of Choices
- REDDIT · 2026-01-09 · 62 UPVOTESUsing GGUF models for LTX-2 in T2V
Using GGUF models for LTX-2 in T2V
- REDDIT · 2026-01-06 · 61 UPVOTESLTX 2: Quantized Gemma_3_12B_it_fp8_e4m3fn
LTX 2: Quantized Gemma_3_12B_it_fp8_e4m3fn