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Can I run Mistral Small 3 24B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB)?
No. Mistral Small 3 24B needs ~16.3 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.
Needs ~16.3 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~15 GB is usable.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~16.3 GB
- Usable on device
- ~15 GB
- Device memory
- 16 GB
- Parameters
- 24B
- Q4_K_M size
- 14.33 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 25.05 GB
- Context
- 128k
- Ollama tag
- mistral-small3.2:24b
- Memory
- 16 GB vram
- Usable for weights
- ~15 GB
- Best runtime
- vLLM (Linux) / Ollama (CUDA)
What you can run instead
Run Mistral Small 3 24B on other hardware
FAQ
Can Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) run Mistral Small 3 24B?
No. Mistral Small 3 24B needs ~16.3 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.
How much memory does Mistral Small 3 24B need?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) does not have enough memory. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~14.33 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~16.3 GB at a 4k context.
What is the best tool to run Mistral Small 3 24B on Windows?
LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.
Sources
Memory figures are estimates. See methodology.