Yes — with 180.7 GB to spare
Ministral 3 14B at Q4_K_M fits your Instinct MI300X entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 411 tokens per second. There is room for its full 256K window.
Fully on GPU
8K context
Q4_K_M · 7.8 GB
Apache 2.0
Released Dec 2025
Vision
The largest Ministral. A 12 GB card runs it at Q4 with a few gigabytes to spare.
The VRAM budget
weights 7.8 GB
Weights 7.8 GB
KV cache @ 8K 1.25 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 180.7 GB of 190.4 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 | 25.9 GB | 27.7 GB | 256K | 124 | Reference | Long context |
| Q8_0 | 13.8 GB | 15.6 GB | 256K | 233 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 10.6 GB | 12.5 GB | 256K | 302 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 9.2 GB | 11.0 GB | 256K | 350 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 7.8 GB | 9.7 GB | 256K | 411 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 6.3 GB | 8.2 GB | 256K | 507 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 5.4 GB | 7.3 GB | 256K | 592 | −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
$ ollama pull ministral-3:14b $ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \ ollama run ministral-3:14b
The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.
01Download is 7.8 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 256K context on this card.