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can it run

Can the RTX 3090 (24GB, used) run mistral-nemo 12B?

YES

Comfortably. 24GB of memory against a 9GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~61–100 tok/s

weights 7.1GB + KV cache 0.62GB at 4k context vs ~24GB usable → full. 7.7 GB needed of 24 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 936 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 7.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Community check: ~49 tok/s · 12-15B Q4 · 34 runs · inside our computed band — localmaxxing.com

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Specs

model file7.1GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory9GB working set
this machine24GB GDDR6X, 936 GB/s
params12B
licenseapache-2.0
price$1100

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.

rtx-5090 — the next step up from this machine's GPU

Buy

NVIDIA (used market) ↗ · Amazon ↗

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