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can it run

Can the HP Z2 Mini G1a (128GB) run mistral-nemo 12B?

YES

Comfortably. 128GB of memory against a 9GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~22–31 tok/s

weights 7.1GB + KV cache 0.62GB at 4k context vs ~126GB usable → full. 7.7 GB needed of 126 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 256 GB/s × 0.60–0.85 efficiency window / 7.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file7.1GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory9GB working set
this machine128GB
params12B
licenseapache-2.0
price$5499

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull mistral-nemo:12b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

no alternatives — every machine in the catalog can run this one.

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