Can I Run Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?
Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) (123B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6) (16 GB).
✕ Out of Memory — Exceeds VRAM Capacity
Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing
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Best price-to-VRAM homelab rig for Llama 3.3 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Q8_0
Apple Mac Mini M4 Pro (64GB Unified Memory)
Silent 65W desktop running 32B–70B models with large KV context
Apple Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB Unified Memory)
Running Mistral Large 2 123B & Llama 3.3 70B Q8_0 locally with 128K context
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)
Lowest-cost 16GB VRAM GPU for running 8B–14B models and LoRA fine-tuning on a budget
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Quantization Precision Matrix
32K ctx • KV: Q8_0| Quantization | Weights | KV Cache | Total VRAM | Est. Speed | Fit Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP1616 bpw | 246 GB | 5.91 GB | 261.27 GB (999%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| Q8_08.5 bpw | 130.38 GB | 5.91 GB | 141.6 GB (885%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| Q6_K6.56 bpw | 100.86 GB | 5.91 GB | 111.05 GB (694%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| Q5_K_M5.68 bpw | 87.33 GB | 5.91 GB | 97.05 GB (607%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| Q4_K_M4.8 bpw | 73.8 GB | 5.91 GB | 83.04 GB (519%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| FP44.25 bpw | 65.19 GB | 5.91 GB | 74.13 GB (463%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
| IQ3_XS3.3 bpw | 50.43 GB | 5.91 GB | 58.86 GB (368%) | 0 t/s | OOM |
Frequently Asked Questions: Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)
How much VRAM does Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) need on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?
At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) requires 83.04 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).
What inference speed will Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct) achieve on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?
Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)'s 288 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 0 tokens per second.
Can I expand context beyond 32K tokens?
Each additional 32K tokens of context requires additional KV cache memory. For longer context windows, consider 8-bit or 4-bit KV cache quantization.