NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB × Mistral Nemo 12B
Can the RTX 3080 10GB run Mistral Nemo 12B?
Yes
Yes. The RTX 3080 10GB can run Mistral Nemo 12B at up to Q4_K_M (needs ~9.1 GB at 4K context of 9.5 GB usable), at an estimated ~72.2 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 139.65 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 8.3 GB | ✅ | ~89.8 |
| Q4_K_M | 9.8 GB | ✅ at 4K ctx | ~72.2 |
| Q5_K_M | 11.1 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q6_K | 12.5 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q8_0 | 15.5 GB | ❌ | — |
| F16 | 27.3 GB | ❌ | — |
Fastest hardware for Mistral Nemo 12B
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~150 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~96.2 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~95.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — ~94.1 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — ~91.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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