What hardware runs Ministral 3 14B?

The smallest-memory cataloged machine that runs Ministral 3 14B on the GPU is a AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT · 12GB VRAM. Here are the rigs that fit it, smallest memory first.

machinebest fitverdictspeed
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT · 12GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 18–30 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT · 12GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 18–30 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 · 12GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 25–40 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT · 16GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 25–40 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT · 16GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 30–50 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT · 16GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 30–50 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 · 16GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 35–60 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 50–85 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT · 20GB VRAM 14B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM 14B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 25–45 tok/s
Apple M2 · 24GB 14B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 7–12 tok/s

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$npx runlocal-sh can-i-run ministral-3-14b --hardware <your-rig>

Verdicts use the same GQA-aware fit math as the CLI — a AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT verdict here matches what runlocal tells you on the machine.