# Can I run Gemma 3 27B on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra?

> **No, not enough memory.** Needs ~18.6 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~8.5 GB is usable.

Last validated: 2026-06-15.

## Memory math
- Gemma 3 27B: 27B; Q4_K_M weighs 16.55 GB on disk.
- At Q4_K_M with a 4k context it needs ~18.6 GB (weights + KV cache + ~0.8 GB runtime overhead, ±15% with context length).
- Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 12 GB ram, ~8.5 GB usable for model weights.
- Headroom: ~-10.1 GB.

## How to run
Recommended quant: n/a. Best tool on Android: PocketPal AI.

## Run Gemma 3 27B on other devices
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/nvidia-rtx-4090-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/nvidia-rtx-3090-24gb)
- [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/amd-rx-7900-xtx-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/nvidia-rtx-5090-32gb)
- [32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/laptop-32gb)
- [Apple M5 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/apple-m5-32gb)

## Other models that run on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
- [Falcon3 10B (10B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/falcon3-10b/samsung-s24-ultra)
- [Gemma 2 9B (9B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-2-9b/samsung-s24-ultra)
- [GLM-4 9B (9B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/glm-4-9b/samsung-s24-ultra)
- [Qwen2.5-VL 7B (8.29B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-vl-7b/samsung-s24-ultra)
- [Llama 3.1 8B (8B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/llama-3.1-8b/samsung-s24-ultra)
- [Qwen3 8B (8B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen3-8b/samsung-s24-ultra)

Estimate, not a guarantee. Sources: https://ollama.com/library/gemma3, https://ollama.com/library/gemma3/tags, https://huggingface.co/bartowski/google_gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF, https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard.
More: https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/gemma-3-27b/samsung-s24-ultra