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Mixtral 8x7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB cannot run Mixtral 8x7B Instruct at any quantization level. The 12 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

46.7B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Mixtral 8x7B Instruct performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q4_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q4_K_M

Requires 24GB+ for viable quality.

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 4070 Ti 12GB

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

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Source: 46.7B total MoE. Q4 ~26GB exceeds 12GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01