gemma-3-1b-it vs TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 14 August 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
1.0 B
Context
—
30d
206 K
gemma licence · conditional
TheBloke · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
2,048
30d
169 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3-AWQ
Parameters 1.0 B 1.1 B
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length — 2,048
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 205,972 169,496
Downloads all time 53.3 M 1.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2023-10-03

Download trend

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

5.2 M169 K
gemma-3-1b-it TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.3-AWQ · fp16 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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