Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

unsloth · A · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.2 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
lmstudio-community · B · Open weights
Params
1.0 B
Context
—
30d
187 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF
Parameters 1.2 B 1.0 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM —
Context length 131,072 —
Licence llama3.2 gemma
Commercial use Conditional Conditional
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 1,210,384 187,454
Downloads all time 6.1 M 502 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-25 2025-03-12

Download trend

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

1.4 M147 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF · Q4_K_M 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 6.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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