# Can I run Mistral Small 3 24B on Apple M3 Pro (18GB)?

> **No, not enough memory.** Needs ~16.3 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~12 GB is usable.

Last validated: 2026-06-15.

## Memory math
- Mistral Small 3 24B: 24B; Q4_K_M weighs 14.33 GB on disk.
- At Q4_K_M with a 4k context it needs ~16.3 GB (weights + KV cache + ~0.8 GB runtime overhead, ±15% with context length).
- Apple M3 Pro (18GB): 18 GB unified, ~12 GB usable for model weights.
- Headroom: ~-4.3 GB.

## How to run
Recommended quant: n/a. Best tool on macOS: LM Studio.

```sh
ollama run mistral-small3.2:24b
```

## Run Mistral Small 3 24B on other devices
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/nvidia-rtx-4090-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/nvidia-rtx-3090-24gb)
- [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/amd-rx-7900-xtx-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/nvidia-rtx-5090-32gb)
- [32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/laptop-32gb)
- [Apple M5 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/apple-m5-32gb)

## Other models that run on Apple M3 Pro (18GB)
- [Phi-4 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/phi-4-14b/apple-m3-18gb)
- [Qwen2.5 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-14b/apple-m3-18gb)
- [Qwen3 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen3-14b/apple-m3-18gb)
- [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b/apple-m3-18gb)
- [Qwen2.5 Coder 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-14b/apple-m3-18gb)
- [Mistral Nemo 12B (12.2B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-nemo-12b/apple-m3-18gb)

Estimate, not a guarantee. Sources: https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small3.2, https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small3.2/tags, https://huggingface.co/bartowski/mistralai_Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506-GGUF, https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/mistral-small-3-2-25-06, https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard.
More: https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-small-3-24b/apple-m3-18gb