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Mistral Small 24B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB cannot run Mistral Small 24B Instruct at any quantization level. The 8 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

24B

Device VRAM

8 GB

Bandwidth

272 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Mistral Small 24B Instruct performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

24B class. Q3_K_M ~11GB. Not viable.

About Mistral Small 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 24B Instruct (24B) is a chat, coding, reasoning model. Mistral's efficient 24B model with strong chat, coding, and reasoning.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB has 8 GB at 272 GB/s. Street price: $289.

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Source: 24.3B model exceeds 8GB even at Q3_K_M (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15