Complete guide to running Gemma 4 12B (11.96B parameters) locally on your own hardware. This guide covers VRAM requirements at every quantization level (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, FP16), compatible GPUs, expected inference speed in tokens per second, and recommended Ollama settings.
Gemma 4 12B is one of the most popular open-source LLMs with 3,256,433 HuggingFace downloads. Use the full Gemma 4 12B model page for detailed benchmarks, quantization comparison, and run commands.