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Can I run Mistral Small 3.1 24B on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB)?

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No, not enough memory would not load

No. Mistral Small 3.1 24B needs ~15.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.

Needs ~15.4 GB Device usable ~15 GB

Needs ~15.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~15 GB is usable.

That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes.

The gap is about 0.4 GB: Mistral Small 3.1 24B needs roughly 15.4 GB at Q4_K_M and AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) leaves only about 15 GB usable for a model. The lightest tracked hardware that runs Mistral Small 3.1 24B is the Apple M4 (24GB) at 24 GB. See Mistral Small 3.1 24B on Apple M4 (24GB).

Q4_K_M needed
~15.4 GB
Usable on device
~15 GB
Device memory
16 GB
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Which quant fits

Quant ladder vs ~15 GB usable
Q2_K
~12.1 GB
Q3_K_M
~13.7 GB
Q4_K_M
~15.4 GB
Q5_K_M
~19.1 GB
Q6_K
~21.7 GB
Q8_0
~25.3 GB
FP16
~49.2 GB
The line marks AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB)'s ~15 GB budget; rungs past it are too large.
Model Mistral
Parameters
24B
Q4_K_M size
13.35 GB
Q8_0 size
23.33 GB
Context
128k
Ollama tag
mistral-small3.1:24b
Full Mistral Small 3.1 24B requirements →
Device Windows
Memory
16 GB vram
Usable for weights
~15 GB
Power draw
~304 W
Best runtime
llama.cpp (Vulkan/ROCm) / Ollama (ROCm)
Best models for AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) →

What you can run instead

Run Mistral Small 3.1 24B on other hardware

Apple M4 (24GB)Apple M4 Pro (24GB)Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB)Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB)AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB)

FAQ

Can AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) run Mistral Small 3.1 24B?

No. Mistral Small 3.1 24B needs ~15.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.

How much memory does Mistral Small 3.1 24B need?

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) does not have enough memory. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~13.35 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~15.4 GB at a 4k context.

What is the best tool to run Mistral Small 3.1 24B on Windows?

LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.

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Sources

Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.