gemma-3-1b-it vs Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 October 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
1.0 B
Context
—
30d
206 K
gemma licence · conditional
prism-ml · B · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
—
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-1b-it Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit
Parameters 1.0 B 2.6 B
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 205,972 1,012,597
Downloads all time 53.3 M 4.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2026-07-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.2 M188 K
gemma-3-1b-it Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit · fp16 10.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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