Gemma 3 1B
GemmaGoogle · 1B · Dense
Google's tiny Gemma for on-device
Use Cases
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | 2 | 0.8 GB | low | — |
| Q3_K_M | 3 | 0.9 GB | moderate | — |
| Q4_K_M | 4 | 1 GB | good | — |
| Q5_K_M | 5 | 1.1 GB | good | — |
| Q6_K | 6 | 1.3 GB | excellent | — |
| Q8_0 | 8 | 1.5 GB | excellent | — |
| F16 | 16 | 2.5 GB | lossless | — |
GPUs that run Gemma 3 1B
Gemma 3 1B needs about 1 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M, so it runs comfortably on a GPU with 2 GB of VRAM or more (210 of the GPUs we track). Common cards, smallest first:
| VRAM | GPUs |
|---|---|
| 2 GB | GTX 1050 , GTX 960 , GTX 950 |
| 3 GB | GTX 1060 3GB |
| 4 GB | RX 6500 XT , GTX 1650 SUPER , GTX 1650 Ti |
| 6 GB | RTX 2060 , Arc A380 , RX 5600 XT |
About this model
This model requires Ollama 0.6 or later. Download Ollama
Gemma is a lightweight, family of models from Google built on Gemini technology. The Gemma 3 models are multimodal—processing text and images—and feature a 128K context window with support for over 140 languages. Available in 270M, 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes, they excel in tasks like question answering, summarization, and reasoning, while their compact design allows deployment on resource-limited devices.
Models
Text
270M parameter model (32k context window)
ollama run gemma3:270m
1B parameter model (32k context window)
ollama run gemma3:1b
Multimodal (Vision)
4B parameter model (128k context window)
ollama run gemma3:4b
12B parameter model (128k context window)
ollama run gemma3:12b
27B parameter model (128k context window)
ollama run gemma3:27b
Quantization aware trained models (QAT)
The quantization aware trained Gemma 3 models preserves similar quality as half precision models (BF16) while maintaining a lower memory footprint (3x less compared to non-quantized models).
1B parameter model
ollama run gemma3:1b-it-qat
4B parameter model
ollama run gemma3:4b-it-qat
12B parameter model
ollama run gemma3:12b-it-qat
27B parameter model
ollama run gemma3:27b-it-qat
Evaluation
Benchmark Results
Gemma 3 270M
| Benchmark | n-shot | Gemma 3 270m instruction tuned |
|---|---|---|
| HellaSwag | 0-shot | 37.7 |
| PIQA | 0-shot | 66.2 |
| ARC-c | 0-shot | 28.2 |
| WinoGrande | 0-shot | 52.3 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | few-shot | 26.7 |
| IF Eval | 0-shot | 51.2 |
These models were evaluated against a large collection of different datasets and metrics to cover different aspects of text generation:
Reasoning, logic and code capabilities
| Benchmark | Metric | Gemma 3 PT 1B | Gemma 3 PT 4B | Gemma 3 PT 12B | Gemma 3 PT 27B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HellaSwag | 10-shot | 62.3 | 77.2 | 84.2 | 85.6 |
| BoolQ | 0-shot | 63.2 | 72.3 | 78.8 | 82.4 |
| PIQA | 0-shot | 73.8 | 79.6 | 81.8 | 83.3 |
| SocialIQA | 0-shot | 48.9 | 51.9 | 53.4 | 54.9 |
| TriviaQA | 5-shot | 39.8 | 65.8 | 78.2 | 85.5 |
| Natural Questions | 5-shot | 9.48 | 20.0 | 31.4 | 36.1 |
| ARC-c | 25-shot | 38.4 | 56.2 | 68.9 | 70.6 |
| ARC-e | 0-shot | 73.0 | 82.4 | 88.3 | 89.0 |
| WinoGrande | 5-shot | 58.2 | 64.7 | 74.3 | 78.8 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 28.4 | 50.9 | 72.6 | 77.7 | |
| DROP | 3-shot, F1 | 42.4 | 60.1 | 72.2 | 77.2 |
| AGIEval | 3-5-shot | 22.2 | 42.1 | 57.4 | 66.2 |
| MMLU | 5-shot, top-1 | 26.5 | 59.6 | 74.5 | 78.6 |
| MATH | 4-shot | – | 24.2 | 43.3 | 50.0 |
| GSM8K | 5-shot, maj@1 | 1.36 | 38.4 | 71.0 | 82.6 |
| GPQA | 9.38 | 15.0 | 25.4 | 24.3 | |
| MMLU (Pro) | 5-shot | 11.2 | 23.7 | 40.8 | 43.9 |
| MBPP | 3-shot | 9.80 | 46.0 | 60.4 | 65.6 |
| HumanEval | pass@1 | 6.10 | 36.0 | 45.7 | 48.8 |
| MMLU (Pro COT) | 5-shot | 9.7 | NaN | NaN | NaN |
Multilingual capabilities
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 PT 1B | Gemma 3 PT 4B | Gemma 3 PT 12B | Gemma 3 PT 27B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MGSM | 2.04 | 34.7 | 64.3 | 74.3 |
| Global-MMLU-Lite | 24.9 | 57.0 | 69.4 | 75.7 |
| Belebele | 26.6 | 59.4 | 78.0 | – |
| WMT24++ (ChrF) | 36.7 | 48.4 | 53.9 | 55.7 |
| FloRes | 29.5 | 39.2 | 46.0 | 48.8 |
| XL-Sum | 4.82 | 8.55 | 12.2 | 14.9 |
| XQuAD (all) | 43.9 | 68.0 | 74.5 | 76.8 |
Multimodal capabilities
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 PT 4B | Gemma 3 PT 12B | Gemma 3 PT 27B |
|---|---|---|---|
| COCOcap | 102 | 111 | 116 |
| DocVQA (val) | 72.8 | 82.3 | 85.6 |
| InfoVQA (val) | 44.1 | 54.8 | 59.4 |
| MMMU (pt) | 39.2 | 50.3 | 56.1 |
| TextVQA (val) | 58.9 | 66.5 | 68.6 |
| RealWorldQA | 45.5 | 52.2 | 53.9 |
| ReMI | 27.3 | 38.5 | 44.8 |
| AI2D | 63.2 | 75.2 | 79.0 |
| ChartQA | 45.4 | 60.9 | 63.8 |
| ChartQA (augmented) | 81.8 | 88.5 | 88.7 |
| VQAv2 | – | – | – |
| BLINK | 38.0 | 35.9 | 39.6 |
| OKVQA | 51.0 | 58.7 | 60.2 |
| TallyQA | 42.5 | 51.8 | 54.3 |
| SpatialSense VQA | 50.9 | 60.0 | 59.4 |
| CountBenchQA | 26.1 | 17.8 | 68.0 |