No — not on this device

Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B at Q4_K_M needs 67.7 GB against 10.6 GB usable, and the shortfall of 57.1 GB is more than 64 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? →

The VRAM budget

weights 66.9 GB
Weights 66.9 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.18 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Over budget 57.1 GB past 10.6 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 117.8 GB 118.5 GB ~2.3 −0.1% ppl 107.9 GB over
Q6_K 90.9 GB 91.7 GB ~3.1 −0.4% ppl 81.1 GB over
Q5_K_M 78.5 GB 79.3 GB ~3.7 −0.8% ppl 68.7 GB over
Q4_K_M 66.9 GB 67.7 GB ~4.4 −1.9% ppl 57.1 GB over
Q3_K_M 54.2 GB 54.9 GB ~5.6 −5.4% ppl 44.3 GB over
Q2_K 46.4 GB 47.2 GB ~6.8 −15% ppl 36.6 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 5

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.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03If it falls back to CPU silently, drop the context first, then step down a quantisation.
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