gemma-3-1b-it vs gpt2-medium

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
gemma licence · conditional
openai-community · B
Params
380 M
Context
30d
572 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it gpt2-medium
Parameters 1.0 B 380 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length
Licence gemma mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 571,519
Downloads all time 46.4 M 29.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.7 M565 K
gemma-3-1b-it gpt2-medium

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

gpt2-medium · fp16 2.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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