No — not on this device

Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B at Q4_K_M needs 67.7 GB against 25.6 GB usable, and the shortfall of 42.1 GB is more than 32 GB of system RAM can cover at a tolerable speed. A smaller sibling or a lower quantisation is the honest answer here.

Does not fit 8K context Q4_K_M · 66.9 GB Apache 2.0 Released 17 Mar 2026 Vision Not in the Ollama library

Instruct, reasoning, vision and code in one 119B MoE. A latent KV cache (320 wide) keeps context cheap; the weights still want 64 GB+.

What hardware do I need for Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B? →

Fits instead: Mistral Small 3.2 24B (15.1 GB)

The VRAM budget

weights 66.9 GB
Weights 66.9 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.18 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Over budget 42.1 GB past 25.6 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 117.8 GB 118.5 GB ~1.5 −0.1% ppl 92.9 GB over
Q6_K 90.9 GB 91.7 GB ~1.9 −0.4% ppl 66.1 GB over
Q5_K_M 78.5 GB 79.3 GB ~2.2 −0.8% ppl 53.7 GB over
Q4_K_M 66.9 GB 67.7 GB ~2.6 −1.9% ppl 42.1 GB over
Q3_K_M 54.2 GB 54.9 GB ~3.2 −5.4% ppl 29.3 GB over
Q2_K 46.4 GB 47.2 GB ~3.7 −15% ppl 21.6 GB over

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model uses multi-head latent attention, so its cache is a compressed latent rather than full K and V.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 13

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

01Download is 66.9 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03If it falls back to CPU silently, drop the context first, then step down a quantisation.
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