Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs gemma-1.1-2b-it

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

meta-llama · A

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

Params

1.2 B

Context

—

30d

10.4 M

llama3.2 licence · conditional

google · B

gemma-1.1-2b-it

Params

2.5 B

Context

—

30d

209 K

gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	gemma-1.1-2b-it
Parameters	1.2 B	2.5 B
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	GemmaForCausalLM
Context length	—	—
Licence	llama3.2	gemma
Commercial use	Conditional	Conditional
Languages	8	—
Downloads 30d	10,412,058	209,209
Downloads all time	92.8 M	3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-18	2024-03-26

Download trend

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

10.4 M200 K

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct gemma-1.1-2b-it

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

gemma-1.1-2b-it · fp16 6.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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