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Can the RTX 3050 Laptop run mistral 7B?

OFFLOAD PARTIAL

4.6 GB vs 4 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss With a q8 (quantized) KV cache it comes to the edge (4.3GB) — possible with modest context, at some quality cost.

4GB · Ampere GA107 · model file 4.1GB · 7B

~26–41 tok/s

computed roofline: 192 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 efficiency window / 4.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run mistral 7B on instead

→ Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs mistral 7B fully ($35)

→ every model the RTX 3050 Laptop can run — full list

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2026-10-01 · ← all models on the RTX 3050 Laptop · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory