# Gemma 3 12B requirements

Updated: 2026-06-15

gemma family, 12B params, released 2025-03.

- Q4_K_M: 7.3 GB on disk; ~8.9 GB to run at 4k context
- Q8_0: 12.51 GB
- Context: 128k
- Run: `ollama run gemma3:12b`
- Runs on 28 of 39 tracked devices

Sources: https://ollama.com/library/gemma3, https://ollama.com/library/gemma3/tags, https://huggingface.co/bartowski/google_gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF, https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard
More: https://localmodel.run/model/gemma-3-12b