Can I run gemma-3-12b-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic on a GeForce RTX 3050?
Not at these settings. No indexed quantization of gemma-3-12b-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic fits GeForce RTX 3050 at any context we compute, with f16 KV. The smallest shipped quantization is 4.44 GiB in weights alone, against 5.58 GiB usable. CPU offload can still run it, slowly.
Every quantization at every context
| Quant | Weights● | 4K◐ | 8K◐ | 16K◐ | 32K◐ | 64K◐ | 128K◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 11.65 GiB | 13.2 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 15.0 | 17.0 | 21.0 |
| Q6_K | 9.00 GiB | 10.6 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 14.3 | 18.3 |
| Q5_K_M | 7.87 GiB | 9.4 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 11.2 | 13.2 | 17.2 |
| Q5_K_S | 7.67 GiB | 9.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 17.0 |
| Q4_K_M | 6.80 GiB | 8.4 | 8.6 | 9.1 | 10.1 | 12.1 | 16.1 |
| Q4_K_S | 6.46 GiB | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 9.8 | 11.8 | 15.8 |
| IQ4_NL | 6.41 GiB | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 15.7 |
| IQ4_XS | 6.15 GiB | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 | 11.5 | 15.5 |
| Q3_K_L | 6.04 GiB | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 9.3 | 11.3 | 15.3 |
| Q3_K_M | 5.60 GiB | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.9 | 10.9 | 14.9 |
| IQ3_M | 5.27 GiB | 6.8 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 14.6 |
| Q3_K_S | 5.08 GiB | 6.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 8.4 | 10.4 | 14.4 |
| IQ3_S | 5.08 GiB | 6.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 8.4 | 10.4 | 14.4 |
| IQ3_XS | 4.85 GiB | 6.4 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 10.2 | 14.2 |
| IQ3_XXS | 4.46 GiB | 6.0 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 9.8 | 13.8 |
| Q2_K | 4.44 GiB | 6.0 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 9.8 | 13.8 |
Figures are GiB of total memory: weights plus KV cache plus compute buffer and backend overhead. Weights and KV are near-exact; the overhead term is modeled. Hover any cell for the breakdown.
Why other calculators disagree
A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate ignores two things that dominate at long context. First, the weights themselves are not the nominal rate — quantizations are mixtures, so the real file is consistently larger than the label implies. Second, most of this model's layers cache only a 1,024-token window rather than the full context.