Gemma 3 1B Instruct
Gemma 3 1B Instruct needs roughly 0.5GB VRAM at Q4 quantization (2.0GB at FP16). 60 GPUs we track can run it fully in VRAM at 8k context.
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VRAM at each quantization
Assumes 8k context. KV cache grows linearly with context length.
| Quant | Weights | KV cache | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 | 2.0 GB | 0.33 GB | 2.6 GB |
| Q8 | 1.0 GB | 0.33 GB | 1.5 GB |
| Q6_K | 0.8 GB | 0.33 GB | 1.2 GB |
| Q5_K_M | 0.6 GB | 0.33 GB | 1.1 GB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.5 GB | 0.33 GB | 0.9 GB |
| Q3_K_M | 0.4 GB | 0.33 GB | 0.8 GB |
| Q2_K | 0.3 GB | 0.33 GB | 0.7 GB |
Benchmarks
GPUs that run Gemma 3 1B Instruct natively (60)
- NVIDIA RTX 5090FP16 · 896 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4090FP16 · 504 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4080FP16 · 358.5 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 TiFP16 · 252 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4070FP16 · 252 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GBFP16 · 144 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 4060FP16 · 136 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 3090FP16 · 468 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 3090 TiFP16 · 504 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GBFP16 · 380 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GBFP16 · 180 t/s
- NVIDIA H100 80GBFP16 · 1675 t/s
- NVIDIA A100 80GBFP16 · 1019.5 t/s
- NVIDIA A100 40GBFP16 · 777.5 t/s
- NVIDIA L40SFP16 · 432 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX A6000FP16 · 384 t/s
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 AdaFP16 · 480 t/s
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXFP16 · 480 t/s
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTFP16 · 400 t/s
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XTFP16 · 256 t/s
- AMD Instinct MI300XFP16 · 2650 t/s
- Apple M4 Ultra (384GB)FP16 · 546 t/s
- Apple M4 Ultra (192GB)FP16 · 546 t/s
- Apple M4 Max (128GB)FP16 · 273 t/s
- Apple M4 Max (96GB)FP16 · 273 t/s
- Apple M4 Max (64GB)FP16 · 273 t/s
- Apple M4 Max (48GB)FP16 · 273 t/s
- Apple M4 Pro (48GB)FP16 · 136.5 t/s
- Apple M4 Pro (24GB)FP16 · 136.5 t/s
- Apple M4 (32GB)FP16 · 60 t/s
- Apple M4 (16GB)FP16 · 60 t/s
- Apple M3 Max (128GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M3 Max (96GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M3 Max (64GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M3 Max (48GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M3 Max (36GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M3 Pro (36GB)FP16 · 75 t/s
- Apple M3 Pro (18GB)FP16 · 75 t/s
- Apple M3 (24GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M3 (16GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M3 (8GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M2 Ultra (384GB)FP16 · 400 t/s
- Apple M2 Ultra (192GB)FP16 · 400 t/s
- Apple M2 Max (96GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M2 Max (64GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M2 Max (32GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M2 Pro (32GB)FP16 · 100 t/s
- Apple M2 Pro (16GB)FP16 · 100 t/s
- Apple M2 (24GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M2 (16GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M2 (8GB)FP16 · 50 t/s
- Apple M1 Ultra (128GB)FP16 · 400 t/s
- Apple M1 Ultra (64GB)FP16 · 400 t/s
- Apple M1 Max (64GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M1 Max (32GB)FP16 · 200 t/s
- Apple M1 Pro (32GB)FP16 · 100 t/s
- Apple M1 Pro (16GB)FP16 · 100 t/s
- Apple M1 (16GB)FP16 · 34 t/s
- Apple M1 (8GB)FP16 · 34 t/s
- Intel Arc A770 16GBFP16 · 280 t/s
Plus 1 GPUs that run it with CPU offload (slower)
- CPU only (system RAM)FP16 · 5.3 t/s
Notes
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