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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Mixtral 8x7B?

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell × Mixtral 8x7B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1695.1 GB of 96 GB
Weights 93.4 GBKV cache 1.1 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~42tokens per second
Max context14Ktokens that fit at FP16
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Mixtral 8x7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 95.1 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 42 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Mixtral 8x7B:

ollama run mixtral:8x7b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 30 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 96 GB the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality95.1 GBFits~42 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless51.3 GBFits~78 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent40 GBFits~102 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good34.9 GBFits~117 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular30 GBFits~137 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded24.5 GBFits~171 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded19.2 GBFits~222 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Mixtral 8x7B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell? Add your real speed

One command times Mixtral 8x7B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- mixtral:8x7b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="mixtral:8x7b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Mixtral 8x7B comfortably

Models that run well on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Mixtral 8x7B?

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Mixtral 8x7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 95.1 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 42 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Mixtral 8x7B need?

About 30 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 95.1 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Mixtral 8x7B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

Roughly 42 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth.