Mistral on NVIDIA Ampere
Can I run Mistral NeMo 12B on an RTX 3080 10GB?
Not at Q4_K_M — it needs 9.1 GB against 8.6 GB available. Drop to IQ4_XS and it fits, at about 68.0 tokens per second.
Won't fit
9.1 GB of 8.6 GB · 106%09 GB
Weights
7.0 GB
KV cache
1.3 GB
Runtime overhead
0.8 GB
Over the limit
0.5 GB
Short by 0.5 GB. You can run it with 37 of 40 layers on the RTX 3080 10GB and the rest in system RAM, at roughly 34.0 tok/s — usable for batch work, painful for chat. A smaller quantisation or a shorter context is usually the better trade.
Generation34.0tok/s
Prompt processing1029tok/s
Max context5Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of Mistral NeMo 12B on a RTX 3080 10GB
Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.
| Quantisation | bpw | Weights | Total | Verdict | Max ctx | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 16.00 | 22.8 GB | 24.9 GB | Won't fit | — | 2.28 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 11.8 GB | 13.9 GB | Won't fit | — | 6.46 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 11.8 GB | 13.9 GB | Won't fit | — | 6.46 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 11.4 GB | 13.5 GB | Won't fit | — | 6.68 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 9.4 GB | 11.4 GB | Won't fit | — | 10.5 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 8.1 GB | 10.2 GB | Won't fit | — | 17.1 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 7.9 GB | 10.0 GB | Won't fit | — | 17.5 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 7.9 GB | 10.0 GB | Won't fit | — | 17.5 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 7.9 GB | 10.0 GB | Won't fit | — | 17.5 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 7.9 GB | 10.0 GB | Won't fit | — | 19.2 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 7.0 GB | 9.1 GB | Won't fit | 5K | 34.0 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 6.7 GB | 8.8 GB | Won't fit | 7K | 50.6 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 6.6 GB | 8.7 GB | Won't fit | 7K | 50.8 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 6.3 GB | 8.3 GB | Fits, but tight | 10K | 68.0 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 5.8 GB | 7.9 GB | Fits, but tight | 12K | 72.5 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 5.6 GB | 7.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 14K | 75.5 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 4.7 GB | 6.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 19K | 86.7 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 4.2 GB | 6.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 23K | 96.3 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 3.5 GB | 5.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 27K | 113 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 3.1 GB | 5.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 30K | 125 |