Can the NVIDIA RTX 3090 run Mistral Small 24B?
Yes
QuantQ6_KExcellent
Memory21.3 GBof 24 GB
Speed~29tokens/s
Yes. The NVIDIA RTX 3090 can run Mistral Small 24B fully in VRAM at Q6_K (excellent), using about 21.3 GB of the 24 GB available, at roughly 29 tokens/second.
Try other context lengths in the calculator →Memory needed by quantization
At 8,192 tokens of context.
| Quant | Quality | Memory | Fits? | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 | Full quality | 49.1 GB | Too big | — |
| Q8_0 | Near-lossless | 27 GB | Too big | — |
| Q6_K | Excellent | 21.3 GB | Fits | ~29 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | Very good | 18.7 GB | Fits | ~33 tok/s |
| Q4_K_M | Good, most popular | 16.2 GB | Fits | ~39 tok/s |
| Q3_K_M | Noticeably degraded | 13.5 GB | Fits | ~49 tok/s |
| Q2_K | Heavily degraded | 10.8 GB | Fits | ~63 tok/s |
How to run Mistral Small 24B on the NVIDIA RTX 3090
With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts it:
ollama run mistral-small:24bOllama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 16.2 GB here). You have room for Q6_K, which is excellent: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.
GPUs that run Mistral Small 24B comfortably
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB)
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB)
- Apple M2 Pro (32GB)
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB)
- Apple M4 Pro (48GB)
Models that run well on the NVIDIA RTX 3090
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