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Gemma 3 4B

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Parameters
4.3B
Context
128k
License
other
Developer
Google
Origin
🇺🇸 USA
Released
Feb 2025

Scores

Coding
42
Reasoning
45
General
55

Score per dollar

1100 pts per $/M input

general_score (55) divided by cheapest input price ($0.05/M). Higher is better value. See live pricing.

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Q4_K_M
3.0GB 3.0GB min 4.4GB rec
Balanced - the usual local sweet spot
Q8_0
5.0GB 5.0GB min 6.4GB rec
Near-lossless

The reference hardware

Schematic of the 4x H100 80GB (320GB) reference rig - 320GB VRAM, 13400 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the NVIDIA DGX Station 748GB reference rig - 748GB unified memory, 8000 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the 8x RTX 3090 rack (192GB) reference rig - 192GB VRAM, 7489 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the 4x RTX 5090 (128GB) reference rig - 128GB VRAM, 7168 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the AMD Instinct MI300X (192GB) reference rig - 192GB VRAM, 5324 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the 4x RTX 4090 (96GB) reference rig - 96GB VRAM, 4032 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the 2x RTX 5090 (64GB) reference rig - 64GB VRAM, 3584 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the 2x RTX 3090 (48GB) reference rig - 48GB VRAM, 1872 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Single RTX 5090 (32GB) reference rig - 32GB VRAM, 1792 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (96GB) reference rig - 96GB VRAM, 1792 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Mac Studio M4 Ultra 192GB reference rig - 192GB unified memory, 1092 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Mac Studio M4 Ultra 512GB reference rig - 512GB unified memory, 1092 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Single RTX 4090 (24GB) reference rig - 24GB VRAM, 1008 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB reference rig - 128GB unified memory, 614 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Single GTX 1080 Ti (11GB) reference rig - 11GB VRAM, 484 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Dual EPYC 9004 + 768GB DDR5-4800 reference rig - 768GB unified memory, 460 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the DGX Spark 128GB unified reference rig - 128GB unified memory, 273 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB reference rig - 128GB unified memory, 256 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Jetson AGX Orin 64GB reference rig - 64GB unified memory, 204 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Epyc + 512GB DDR4-3200 + 2x RTX 3090 reference rig - 560GB unified memory, 204 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the Epyc + 512GB DDR4-2400 + 2x RTX 3090 reference rig - 560GB unified memory, 153 GB/s aggregate bandwidth
Schematic of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB reference rig - 16GB unified memory, 102 GB/s aggregate bandwidth

22 reference configs, drawn in-house. Scroll for more.

Can you run it? - reference rigs

Rig Q4_K_M Q8_0
4x H100 80GB (320GB) fast 1743.1t/s fast 1183.4t/s
NVIDIA DGX Station 748GB fast 1040.7t/s fast 706.5t/s
8x RTX 3090 rack (192GB) fast 974.3t/s fast 661.4t/s
4x RTX 5090 (128GB) fast 932.5t/s fast 633.0t/s
AMD Instinct MI300X (192GB) fast 692.7t/s fast 470.2t/s
4x RTX 4090 (96GB) fast 524.5t/s fast 356.1t/s
2x RTX 5090 (64GB) fast 466.2t/s fast 316.5t/s
2x RTX 3090 (48GB) fast 243.6t/s fast 165.4t/s
Single RTX 5090 (32GB) fast 233.1t/s fast 158.3t/s
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (96GB) fast 233.1t/s fast 158.3t/s
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 192GB fast 155.0t/s fast 105.2t/s
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 512GB fast 155.0t/s fast 105.2t/s
Single RTX 4090 (24GB) fast 131.1t/s fast 89.0t/s
MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB fast 87.1t/s fast 59.2t/s
Single GTX 1080 Ti (11GB) fast 63.0t/s fast 42.7t/s
Dual EPYC 9004 + 768GB DDR5-4800 fast 59.9t/s fast 40.7t/s
DGX Spark 128GB unified fast 35.5t/s fast 24.1t/s
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB fast 33.3t/s fast 22.6t/s
Jetson AGX Orin 64GB fast 26.6t/s ok 18.1t/s
Epyc + 512GB DDR4-3200 + 2x RTX 3090 fast 26.6t/s ok 18.1t/s
Epyc + 512GB DDR4-2400 + 2x RTX 3090 ok 20.0t/s ok 13.6t/s
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB ok 13.3t/s ok 9.0t/s

Fit tiers use the same will-it-run logic as the rig finder. For comfortable fits, the badge reflects decode speed: fast >=20 t/s, ok 8-20 t/s, slow <8 t/s. t/s is a bandwidth estimate, not a measured benchmark.

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Q4_K_M official -5% vs fp16
3.0GB dl 3.0GB min 4.4GB rec
REC RAM vs largest quant
Q8_0 official -1% vs fp16
5.0GB dl 5.0GB min 6.4GB rec
REC RAM vs largest quant

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