diff --git a/convert/convert_gemma3.go b/convert/convert_gemma3.go
index f43248dbd..fab5fcd85 100644
--- a/convert/convert_gemma3.go
+++ b/convert/convert_gemma3.go
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package convert
 
-import "github.com/ollama/ollama/fs/ggml"
+import (
+	"cmp"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/fs/ggml"
+)
 
 type gemma3Model struct {
 	gemmaModel
@@ -61,9 +65,9 @@ func (p *gemma3Model) KV(t *Tokenizer) ggml.KV {
 		kv["gemma3.vision.feed_forward_length"] = p.VisionModel.IntermediateSize
 		kv["gemma3.vision.image_size"] = p.VisionModel.ImageSize
 		kv["gemma3.vision.patch_size"] = p.VisionModel.PatchSize
-		kv["gemma3.vision.num_channels"] = p.VisionModel.NumChannels
+		kv["gemma3.vision.num_channels"] = cmp.Or(p.VisionModel.NumChannels, 3)
 		kv["gemma3.vision.attention.head_count"] = p.VisionModel.NumAttentionHeads
-		kv["gemma3.vision.attention.layer_norm_epsilon"] = p.VisionModel.LayerNormEpsilon
+		kv["gemma3.vision.attention.layer_norm_epsilon"] = cmp.Or(p.VisionModel.LayerNormEpsilon, 1e-6)
 	}
 
 	kv["tokenizer.ggml.bos_token_id"] = uint32(2)
diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/model.go b/model/models/gemma3/model.go
index f9beccc24..a2e9c7f43 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/model.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/model.go
@@ -88,13 +88,7 @@ func (m *Model) EncodeMultimodal(ctx ml.Context, multimodalData []byte) (any, er
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	positionIDs, err := ctx.FromIntSlice([]int32{0}, 1)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	visionOutputs := m.VisionModel.Forward(ctx, pixelValues, positionIDs)
-
+	visionOutputs := m.VisionModel.Forward(ctx, pixelValues)
 	visionOutputs = visionOutputs.Permute(ctx, 1, 0, 2, 3).Contiguous(ctx)
 	patchesPerImage := m.ImageProcessor.imageSize / m.ImageProcessor.patchSize
 	kernelSize := patchesPerImage * patchesPerImage / 256
diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
index ec46ba9a8..9a09bf1fe 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
@@ -169,14 +169,14 @@ func (l *TextLayer) Forward(ctx ml.Context, layer int, hiddenState, positionIDs,
 
 func (m *TextModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, inputs, positions, outputs ml.Tensor, multimodal []input.MultimodalIndex, cache kvcache.Cache) ml.Tensor {
 	hiddenState := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, inputs)
+	hiddenState = hiddenState.Scale(ctx, math.Sqrt(float64(m.TextOptions.hiddenSize)))
+
 	if multimodal != nil {
 		visionOutputs := multimodal[0].Multimodal.(ml.Tensor)
 		offset := multimodal[0].Index - 1 - visionOutputs.Dim(1)
 		hiddenState = hiddenState.Set(ctx, visionOutputs, offset*hiddenState.Stride(0))
 	}
 
-	hiddenState = hiddenState.Scale(ctx, math.Sqrt(float64(m.TextOptions.hiddenSize)))
-
 	if len(m.Layers) == gemma27BLayerCount {
 		m.TextOptions.largeModelScaling = true
 	}
diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/model_vision.go b/model/models/gemma3/model_vision.go
index 49f9a5d29..a508f65bd 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/model_vision.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/model_vision.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package gemma3
 
 import (
 	"math"
-	"slices"
 
 	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml"
 	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml/nn"
@@ -69,52 +68,6 @@ func (e *VisionEncoderLayer) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState ml.Tensor, opts
 	return hiddenState.Add(ctx, residual)
 }
 
-type VisionEncoder struct {
-	Layers []VisionEncoderLayer
-}
-
-func (e *VisionEncoder) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState ml.Tensor, intermediateLayersIndices []uint32, opts *VisionModelOptions) (ml.Tensor, []ml.Tensor) {
-	var intermediateHiddenStates []ml.Tensor
-	for i, layer := range e.Layers {
-		if slices.Contains(intermediateLayersIndices, uint32(i)) {
-			intermediateHiddenStates = append(intermediateHiddenStates, hiddenState.Reshape(ctx, append([]int{1}, hiddenState.Shape()...)...))
-		}
-
-		hiddenState = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenState, opts)
-	}
-
-	return hiddenState, intermediateHiddenStates
-}
-
-type PrecomputedAspectRatioEmbedding struct {
-	Embedding *nn.Embedding
-	Gate      ml.Tensor `gguf:"gate"`
-}
-
-func (e *PrecomputedAspectRatioEmbedding) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState ml.Tensor, aspectRatioIDs ml.Tensor, opts *VisionModelOptions) ml.Tensor {
-	embeddings := e.Embedding.Forward(ctx, aspectRatioIDs)
-	embeddings = embeddings.Reshape(ctx, opts.hiddenSize, 1, opts.numTiles)
-	if e.Gate != nil {
-		embeddings = embeddings.Mul(ctx, e.Gate)
-	}
-
-	return hiddenState.Add(ctx, embeddings)
-}
-
-type PrecomputedPositionEmbedding struct {
-	PositionEmbedding     *nn.Embedding `gguf:"position_embd"`
-	PositionEmbeddingGate ml.Tensor     `gguf:"position_embd.gate"`
-}
-
-func (e *PrecomputedPositionEmbedding) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenState, positionIDs ml.Tensor, numPositions int, opts *VisionModelOptions) ml.Tensor {
-	positionEmbedding := e.PositionEmbedding.Forward(ctx, positionIDs)
-	if e.PositionEmbeddingGate != nil {
-		positionEmbedding = positionEmbedding.Mul(ctx, e.PositionEmbeddingGate)
-	}
-
-	return hiddenState.Add(ctx, positionEmbedding)
-}
-
 type VisionModelOptions struct {
 	hiddenSize, numHeads, numTiles int
 	imageSize, patchSize           int
@@ -126,22 +79,31 @@ type VisionModel struct {
 	PositionEmbedding *nn.Embedding `gguf:"position_embedding"`
 	PostLayerNorm     *nn.LayerNorm `gguf:"post_layernorm"`
 
-	Encoder *VisionEncoder `gguf:"blk"`
+	Layers []VisionEncoderLayer `gguf:"blk"`
 
 	*VisionModelOptions
 }
 
-func (m *VisionModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, pixelValues, positionIDs ml.Tensor) ml.Tensor {
+func (m *VisionModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, pixelValues ml.Tensor) ml.Tensor {
 	numPatches := (m.imageSize / m.patchSize) * (m.imageSize / m.patchSize)
 
 	hiddenState := m.PatchEmbedding.Forward(ctx, pixelValues, m.patchSize, m.patchSize, 0, 0, 1, 1)
 	hiddenState = hiddenState.Reshape(ctx, numPatches, m.hiddenSize)
 	hiddenState = hiddenState.Permute(ctx, 1, 0, 2, 3).Contiguous(ctx)
 
-	positions := m.PositionEmbedding.Forward(ctx, positionIDs)
-	hiddenState = hiddenState.Add(ctx, positions)
+	positions := make([]int32, numPatches)
+	for i := range positions {
+		positions[i] = int32(i)
+	}
 
-	for _, layer := range m.Encoder.Layers {
+	positionIDs, err := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(positions, len(positions))
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	hiddenState = hiddenState.Add(ctx, m.PositionEmbedding.Forward(ctx, positionIDs))
+
+	for _, layer := range m.Layers {
 		hiddenState = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenState, m.VisionModelOptions)
 	}
 
@@ -151,7 +113,7 @@ func (m *VisionModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, pixelValues, positionIDs ml.Tensor
 
 func newVisionModel(c ml.Config) *VisionModel {
 	return &VisionModel{
-		Encoder: &VisionEncoder{Layers: make([]VisionEncoderLayer, c.Uint("vision.block_count"))},
+		Layers: make([]VisionEncoderLayer, c.Uint("vision.block_count")),
 		VisionModelOptions: &VisionModelOptions{
 			hiddenSize: int(c.Uint("vision.embedding_length")),
 			numHeads:   int(c.Uint("vision.attention.head_count")),
diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/process_image.go b/model/models/gemma3/process_image.go
index a32e60e58..961794044 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/process_image.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/process_image.go
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ func (p *ImageProcessor) pack(img image.Image, mean, std [3]float32) []float32 {
 	var pixelVals []float32
 
 	bounds := img.Bounds()
-	var rVals, gVals, bVals []float32
-	for y := bounds.Min.Y; y < bounds.Max.Y; y++ {
-		for x := bounds.Min.X; x < bounds.Max.X; x++ {
+	for x := bounds.Min.X; x < bounds.Max.X; x++ {
+		for y := bounds.Min.Y; y < bounds.Max.Y; y++ {
 			c := img.At(x, y)
 			r, g, b, _ := c.RGBA()
 			rVal := float32(r>>8) / 255.0
@@ -36,14 +35,9 @@ func (p *ImageProcessor) pack(img image.Image, mean, std [3]float32) []float32 {
 			gVal = (gVal - mean[1]) / std[1]
 			bVal = (bVal - mean[2]) / std[2]
 
-			rVals = append(rVals, rVal)
-			gVals = append(gVals, gVal)
-			bVals = append(bVals, bVal)
+			pixelVals = append(pixelVals, rVal, gVal, bVal)
 		}
 	}
-	pixelVals = append(pixelVals, rVals...)
-	pixelVals = append(pixelVals, gVals...)
-	pixelVals = append(pixelVals, bVals...)
 
 	return pixelVals
 }