Can the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT run Mistral 7B v0.3?
Yes
QuantQ8_0Near-lossless
Memory9.4 GBof 16 GB
Speed~49tokens/s
Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT can run Mistral 7B v0.3 fully in VRAM at Q8_0 (near-lossless), using about 9.4 GB of the 16 GB available, at roughly 49 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 | 16.2 GB | Too big | — |
| Q8_0 | Near-lossless | 9.4 GB | Fits | ~49 tok/s |
| Q6_K | Excellent | 7.6 GB | Fits | ~63 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | Very good | 6.8 GB | Fits | ~73 tok/s |
| Q4_K_M | Good, most popular | 6.1 GB | Fits | ~85 tok/s |
| Q3_K_M | Noticeably degraded | 5.2 GB | Fits | ~106 tok/s |
| Q2_K | Heavily degraded | 4.4 GB | Fits | ~138 tok/s |
How to run Mistral 7B v0.3 on the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts it:
ollama run mistral:7bOllama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 6.1 GB here). You have room for Q8_0, which is near-lossless: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.
GPUs that run Mistral 7B v0.3 comfortably
- NVIDIA RTX 4060 (8 GB)
- NVIDIA RTX 3070 (8 GB)
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB
- NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 (12 GB)
Models that run well on the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
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