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Can the RTX 3060 12GB (used) run mixtral 8x7B MoE?

NO

No. 12GB of memory can't hold the 33GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

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Specs

model file26GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory33GB working set
this machine12GB GDDR6, 360 GB/s
params8x7B MoE
licenseapache-2.0
price$350

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull mixtral:8x7b

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

Alternatives

Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) — cheapest machine that runs it ($1669)

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