Yes — with 63.1 GB to spare

Devstral Small 2 24B at Q4_K_M fits your A100 80 GB entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 91 tokens per second. There is room for its full 384K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 13.5 GB Apache 2.0 Released Dec 2025 Vision Not in the Ollama library

Built for software-engineering agents (OpenHands, Cline). Dense 24B, 384K window. Not in the Ollama library.

What hardware do I need for Devstral Small 2 24B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 13.5 GB
Weights 13.5 GB KV cache @ 8K 1.25 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 63.1 GB of 78.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 23.7 GB 25.6 GB 345K 52 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 18.3 GB 20.2 GB 380K 67 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 15.8 GB 17.7 GB 384K 78 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 13.5 GB 15.3 GB 384K 91 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 10.9 GB 12.8 GB 384K 113 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 9.4 GB 11.2 GB 384K 132 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 13.5 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 384K context on this card.
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