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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB run mistral-nemo 12B?

TIGHT

7.7 of 8 GB usable — keep context modest

8GB · Ampere · model file 7.1GB · 12B

~17–28 tok/s

computed roofline: 224 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 efficiency window / 7.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run mistral-nemo 12B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs mistral-nemo 12B fully ($135)

rtx-3060-ti — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

every model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB can run — full list

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