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Can the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT run Mistral Small 3.2 24B?

Radeon RX 7900 XT × Mistral Small 3.2 24B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at Q5_K_M19 GB of 20 GB
Weights 17.1 GBKV cache 1.3 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantQ5_K_MVery good
Speed~28tokens per second
Max context12Ktokens that fit at Q5_K_M
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT can run Mistral Small 3.2 24B fully in VRAM at Q5_K_M (very good), using about 19 GB of the 20 GB available, at roughly 28 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Mistral Small 3.2 24B:

ollama run mistral-small3.2:24b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 16.5 GB here). You have room for Q5_K_M, which is very good: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 20 GB the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality49.9 GBToo big—
Q8_0Near-lossless27.4 GBToo big—
Q6_KExcellent21.6 GBToo big—
Q5_K_MVery good19 GBFits~28 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular16.5 GBFits~33 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded13.7 GBFits~41 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded10.9 GBFits~53 tok/s

Measured speed from real Radeon RX 7900 XT owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Mistral Small 3.2 24B on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have a Radeon RX 7900 XT? Add your real speed

One command times Mistral Small 3.2 24B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- mistral-small3.2:24b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="mistral-small3.2:24b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Mistral Small 3.2 24B comfortably

Models that run well on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT run Mistral Small 3.2 24B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT can run Mistral Small 3.2 24B fully in VRAM at Q5_K_M (very good), using about 19 GB of the 20 GB available, at roughly 28 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Mistral Small 3.2 24B need?

About 16.5 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 49.9 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Mistral Small 3.2 24B on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?

Roughly 28 tokens per second at Q5_K_M, estimated from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT's 800 GB/s memory bandwidth.