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Can I run Ministral 3 3B locally?

Mistral · 3.85B parameters · chat, vision.

Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 3 GB (ministral-3:3b); Q8_0 4.5 GB (ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0).

Yes on 62 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 8GB: Q4_K_M, about 4.1 GB, roughly 18 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run ministral-3:3b

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

Open Ministral 3 3B in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M1 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M4.1 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b
M2 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M4.1 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b
M3 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M4.1 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RX 7600 8GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M1 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M2 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M3 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~90 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~90 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~96 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~128 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~83 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~85 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M2 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M3 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~125 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~134 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~128 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 32GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~73 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~82 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~239 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~109 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~109 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~146 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~213 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~109 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~142 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~114 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~146 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~213 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~213 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~224 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~146 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF4.8 GBfits in fast memory~197 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

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 2026-10-18.

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