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August 23, 2026No. 113
Arc B580 · 12GB GDDR6

Can the Arc B580 run Codestral 22B v0.1?

Only with CPU offload at Q4_K_M.

Codestral 22B v0.1 is 22.2B parameters. At Q4_K_M the weights are about 12.4 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 13.9 GiB against the card's 12GB, about 1.9 GiB more than the card has.

All three quants

12GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant12.4 GiB13.9 GiBOnly with CPU offloadshort 1.9 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless21.9 GiB23.4 GiBOnly with CPU offloadshort 11.4 GiB
FP16full weights41.4 GiB42.9 GiBDoes not fitshort 30.9 GiB

Verdict rules: fits comfortably when weights plus reserve sit within 85% of VRAM; tight when they fit with little left for context; CPU offload when they exceed VRAM by up to 2x (runs, slowly, with layers in system RAM); no beyond that. The KV cache per token depends on the model's architecture and is not modelled here.

Not this card. These fit it comfortably at Q4.

What the Arc B580 does run well → · Codestral 22B v0.1 on every card →

About the model

Codestral 22B v0.1 by Mistral AI: 32,768-token native context, text, released 2024 under the Mistral AI Non-Production License. Model card →

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