Mixtral 8x7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB cannot run Mixtral 8x7B Instruct at any quantization level. The 8 GB of VRAM is insufficient.
Model Size
46.7B
Device VRAM
8 GB
Bandwidth
272 GB/s
Quantizations Tested
1
Performance by Quantization
Each row shows Mixtral 8x7B Instruct performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB.
| Quantization | Speed | TTFT | Fits in VRAM | Rating | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | — | — | ✗ Offload | Not Viable | estimated |
Notes
Q4_K_M
46.7B total params. Not viable on 8GB.
About Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct (46.7B) is a chat, coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Mixture of Experts model — 46.7B total params but only ~12.9B active per token. Excellent quality-to-speed ratio. Despite large total params, inference speed closer to a 13B model. Needs more VRAM for the full weight set though.
View all Mixtral 8x7B Instruct hardware options →About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB has 8 GB at 272 GB/s. Street price: $289.
See all models NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB can run →Source: 46.7B total MoE. Even Q4 needs ~26GB (2026-03-15)
Data last updated: 2026-03-01