Can I Run Mistral Small 4 on 192 GB system RAM?

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2026年3月16日

Yes — comfortably

Yes, comfortably — Mistral Small 4 119B-A6.5B at Q3_K_M needs about 54.4 GB of the 153.6 GB usable on 192 GB system RAM, leaving ~99.2 GB spare and running at ~6.1 tok/s (estimated), with room for about 131,072 tokens of context.

Confidence: medium · Recommended quantization: Q3_K_M · Estimated speed: ~6.1 tok/s

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192 GB system RAM — what it gives a model

Usable memory for models	153.6 GB
Memory bandwidth	90 GB/s

Mistral Small 4 on 192 GB system RAM: memory by quantization

Quant	Memory needed	Fits 153.6 GB?	Max context	Est. speed	Download
F16	241.7 GB	✗ No	—	—	238 GB
Q8_0	130.1 GB	✓ Yes	64K	~2.7 tok/s	126.4 GB
Q6_K	101.2 GB	✓ Yes	128K	~3.4 tok/s	97.6 GB
Q5_K_M	88 GB	✓ Yes	128K	~3.9 tok/s	84.3 GB
Q4_K_M	75.5 GB	✓ Yes	128K	~4.5 tok/s	71.8 GB
Q3_K_M	54.4 GB	✓ Yes	128K	~6.1 tok/s	50.7 GB
Q2_K	42.8 GB	✓ Yes	128K	~7.6 tok/s	39.1 GB

What to watch out for

Q3_K_M is the only quantization that fits, and it is a heavily degraded one — expect noticeably worse output than the same model at Q4_K_M. A smaller model at Q4 is usually the better trade.
This model does not publish its full attention configuration, so the KV-cache share of these figures is inferred from its parameter count rather than computed exactly.
These figures assume CPU-only inference. Any discrete GPU, even an 8 GB one, will be several times faster for models that fit in its VRAM.

Recommended setup

llama.cpp (CPU build) or Ollama — both run without a GPU

How these numbers are calculated

Memory need = quantized weights + KV cache at 8,192 tokens (f16) + 0.8 GB runtime overhead.
153.6 GB of the 192 GB is treated as usable for model weights (80% — the rest is the OS and running applications).
DDR5-5600 dual channel at 89.6 GB/s peak. CPU decode is assumed to sustain 35% of that peak, because CPU inference is not purely bandwidth-bound — it also spends real time in compute and thread synchronisation. This figure is an assumption, not a fitted constant: no CPU measurement is in the calibration set.
CPU-only inference: no GPU is assumed. A GPU of any size will beat these figures substantially.
Throughput is a memory-bandwidth roofline estimate, not a measurement. It is labelled "estimated" everywhere it appears.
KV cache is inferred from the parameter count because this model does not publish its full attention configuration.

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