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Mistral Small 24B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB cannot run Mistral Small 24B Instruct at any quantization level. The 12 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

24B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 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 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

Requires 16GB+ for viable quality.

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 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has 12 GB at 504 GB/s. Street price: $749.

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Source: 24.3B model Q3_K_M ~11GB exceeds 12GB with context (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15