Yes — with 37.7 GB to spare
Mistral NeMo 12B at Q4_K_M fits your Radeon Pro W7900 entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 76 tokens per second. There is room for its full 128K window.
Fully on GPU
8K context
Q4_K_M · 6.9 GB
Apache 2.0
Released Jul 2024
Multilingual 12B with a 128K window, built with NVIDIA. A roleplay and fiction favourite that refuses to die.
The VRAM budget
weights 6.9 GB
Weights 6.9 GB
KV cache @ 8K 1.25 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 37.7 GB of 46.4 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 | 22.7 GB | 24.6 GB | 128K | 23 | Reference | Long context |
| Q8_0 | 12.1 GB | 13.9 GB | 128K | 43 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 9.3 GB | 11.2 GB | 128K | 56 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 8.1 GB | 9.9 GB | 128K | 65 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 6.9 GB | 8.7 GB | 128K | 76 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 5.6 GB | 7.4 GB | 128K | 94 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 4.8 GB | 6.6 GB | 128K | 110 | −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 mistral-nemo:12b $ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \ ollama run mistral-nemo:12b
The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.
01Download is 6.9 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 128K context on this card.