gemma-3-270m vs pythia-160m-deduped

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

google · A
Params
270 M
Context
30d
2.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
EleutherAI · B
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
194 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-270m pythia-160m-deduped
Parameters 270 M 210 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,148,430 194,143
Downloads all time 15.7 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2023-02-08

Download trend

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

2.1 M162 K
gemma-3-270m pythia-160m-deduped

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-160m-deduped · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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