Mistral-Large-2-123B on 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) (48GB VRAM)
Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Mistral-Large-2-123B requires 80.23 GB VRAM (2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~1.2 tok/s).
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80.23 GB / 48 GB🚀 Ready-to-Run Launch Command
ollama run mistral-large:123b # Or with llama.cpp server (8K context, Flash Attention): llama-server -hf mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411-GGUF -c 8192 -ngl 99 -fa
Need 80.23 GB+ VRAM to run Mistral-Large-2-123B?
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All Quantization Formats: Mistral-Large-2-123B on 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB)
| Quantization Format | Bits/Weight | Weights VRAM | KV Cache (8K) | Total VRAM | Fits on 1x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) (48GB)? | Est. Speed | GPUs Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 (Unquantized) | 16 bpw | 253.38 GB | 2.75 GB | 256.8 GB | No (Over by 208.8GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 6x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| FP8 (W8A8 / E4M3) | 8.5 bpw | 134.61 GB | 2.75 GB | 138.03 GB | No (Over by 90.0GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 3x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF Q8_0 (8-bit) | 8.5 bpw | 134.61 GB | 2.75 GB | 138.03 GB | No (Over by 90.0GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 3x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF Q6_K (6-bit) | 6.56 bpw | 103.89 GB | 2.75 GB | 107.31 GB | No (Over by 59.3GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 3x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF Q5_K_M (5-bit) | 5.69 bpw | 90.11 GB | 2.75 GB | 93.53 GB | No (Over by 45.5GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ (4-bit) | 4.85 bpw | 76.81 GB | 2.75 GB | 80.23 GB | No (Over by 32.2GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF IQ4_XS (4.25 bpw) | 4.25 bpw | 67.3 GB | 2.75 GB | 70.73 GB | No (Over by 22.7GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
| GGUF Q3_K_M (3-bit) | 3.91 bpw | 61.92 GB | 2.75 GB | 65.34 GB | No (Over by 17.3GB) | ~1.3 tok/s | 2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) |
Frequently Asked Questions (Mistral-Large-2-123B + 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB))
Can 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) (48GB) run Mistral-Large-2-123B locally?
No — A single 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) (48GB) cannot fit Mistral-Large-2-123B in VRAM. Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Mistral-Large-2-123B requires 80.23 GB VRAM (2x 2x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB) GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~1.2 tok/s).
How is KV Cache calculated for Mistral-Large-2-123B?
Mistral-Large-2-123B uses Dense-GQA with 88 transformer layers, 96 attention heads, and 8 KV heads (head dimension 128). At 8,192 tokens in FP16, KV cache consumes 2.75 GB. Enabling 8-bit KV cache (-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 in llama.cpp or --kv-cache-dtype fp8 in vLLM) cuts this in half to 1.38 GB.