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GeForce RTX 4090 (used) · 24GB GDDR6X

Can the GeForce RTX 4090 (used) run Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Does not fit at Q4_K_M.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 is 141B parameters (MoE; all experts resident). At Q4_K_M the weights are about 78.8 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 80.3 GiB against the card's 24GB, about 56.3 GiB more than the card has.

All three quants

24GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant78.8 GiB80.3 GiBDoes not fitshort 56.3 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless139.2 GiB140.7 GiBDoes not fitshort 116.7 GiB
FP16full weights262.6 GiB264.1 GiBDoes not fitshort 240.1 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.

Nothing in the consumer catalog fits Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 at Q4 on a single card; this is multi-GPU or datacenter territory, or a job for hosted inference (see PicksByModel for per-token pricing).

What the GeForce RTX 4090 (used) does run well → · Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 on every card →

About the model

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 by Mistral AI: 65,536-token native context, text, released 2024 under the Apache-2.0. Model card → · Hosted pricing on PicksByModel →

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