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Can a RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run Mistral Nemo 12B?

Yes, with partial offload (slower). Mistral Nemo 12B on RTX 4060 Ti 8GB at Q4_K_M uses system RAM (8.7 GB needed, 7.5 GB usable), about 16 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: RTX 4060 Ti 8GB · Model: Mistral Nemo 12B

RTX 4060 Ti 8GB has 8 GB of VRAM and 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker holds back 0.5 GB of VRAM for the driver and assumes 16 GB of system RAM, so fast memory usable by Ollama is 7.5 GB. Partial offload may also use 60% of that system RAM. Mistral Nemo 12B (12.2B, Mistral) at Q4_K_M is a 7.5 GB download and needs 8.7 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ4_K_M
Download size7.5 GB
Memory needed8.7 GB
Usable fast memory7.5 GB
Fitpartial offload (slower)
Estimated speed~16 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-q4_K_M
Open RTX 4060 Ti 8GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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