Codestral 22B — VRAM Requirements

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 21 lipca 2026

How much GPU VRAM you need to run Codestral Codestral 22B by Mistral AI locally, a 22.2B-parameter model. Figures are quantized weights + KV cache + framework overhead from a memory-bandwidth roofline model.

Codestral 22B needs about 16 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M.

VRAM by Quantization

QuantBits/weightWeightsTotal VRAM
Q2_K2.637.3 GB10.0 GB
Q3_K_M3.419.5 GB12.1 GB
Q4_K_M4.8313.4 GB16.1 GB
Q5_K_M5.6715.7 GB18.4 GB
Q6_K6.5618.2 GB20.9 GB
Q8_08.5023.6 GB26.3 GB
F1616.0044.4 GB47.1 GB

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VRAM Requirements

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Estimates only — actual VRAM varies with context length, batch size, runtime and KV-cache settings.