gpt2 vs gemma-3-270m

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

openai-community · A
Params
140 M
Context
30d
13.7 M
mit · commercial OK
google · B
Params
270 M
Context
30d
2.1 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt2 gemma-3-270m
Parameters 140 M 270 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context length
Licence mit gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 13,734,664 2,148,430
Downloads all time 901.9 M 15.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2025-08-05

Download trend

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

13.9 M2.0 M
gpt2 gemma-3-270m

VRAM side by side

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

gpt2 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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