Mistral Nemo on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM

✅ Runs (tight) — Mistral Nemo 12B @ Q5_K_M
Mistral Nemo 12B at Q5_K_M needs ~9.9 GB (weights 8.1 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 10.8 GB usable VRAM — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~15–25 tok/s (usable).
context @ Q5_K_M: runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
quantneedsspeed
~ Q8_014.0 GB~3–5 tok/s (slow)
~ Q6_K11.1 GB~4–7 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q5_K_M9.9 GB~15–25 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q4_K_M8.7 GB~17–30 tok/s (fast)
$runlocal install mistral-nemo:12b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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Mistral Nemo: Runs (tight)
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Gemma 3

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These share Mistral Nemo's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM too:

modelsharesverdict here
Qwen2.5-Coder 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.2 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd ❌ Won't fit
Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Mistral Small 3 8kv/128hd ⚠️ Partial GPU offload
Codestral 8kv/128hd ⚠️ Partial GPU offload
Llama 3.2 Vision 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mixtral 8x7B 8kv/128hd 🐢 CPU-only (slow)

…and 7 more — see the Mistral Nemo page.

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