Can the NVIDIA RTX 4070 run Mistral Nemo 12B?
Yes
QuantQ6_KExcellent
Memory11.9 GBof 12 GB
Speed~30tokens/s
Yes. The NVIDIA RTX 4070 can run Mistral Nemo 12B fully in VRAM at Q6_K (excellent), using about 11.9 GB of the 12 GB available, at roughly 30 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 | 26.3 GB | Too big | — |
| Q8_0 | Near-lossless | 14.9 GB | Too big | — |
| Q6_K | Excellent | 11.9 GB | Fits | ~30 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | Very good | 10.6 GB | Fits | ~35 tok/s |
| Q4_K_M | Good, most popular | 9.3 GB | Fits | ~41 tok/s |
| Q3_K_M | Noticeably degraded | 7.9 GB | Fits | ~51 tok/s |
| Q2_K | Heavily degraded | 6.5 GB | Fits | ~66 tok/s |
How to run Mistral Nemo 12B on the NVIDIA RTX 4070
With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts it:
ollama run mistral-nemo:12bOllama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 9.3 GB here). You have room for Q6_K, which is excellent: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.
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