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Home/Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3/on RTX 3080 Ti 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3080 Ti 12GB run Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

158.1 tok/s

TTFT

1225 ms

Safe context

8K

Memory

7.8 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.3 GB
KV Cache1.1 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well158.1 tok/s1782 ms8K
ChatCRuns well158.1 tok/s668 ms8K
CodingBRuns well158.1 tok/s1225 ms8K
RAGBRuns well158.1 tok/s2227 ms8K
ReasoningBRuns well158.1 tok/s1448 ms8K

Quantization options

How Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 (7B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
2.7 GB
LowD34
Q3_K_S
3
3.4 GB
LowD35
NVFP4
4
3.9 GB
MediumD36
Q4_K_M
4
4.3 GB
MediumD36
Q5_K_M
5
5.0 GB
HighD38
Q6_K
6
5.7 GB
HighD39
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
7.5 GB
Very HighC42
F16
16
14.3 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3
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