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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.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q4_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

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.

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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: 46.7B total MoE. Even Q4 needs ~26GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01