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Mistral AIMinistral 3 8B

Ministral 3 8B — the 8B of Mistral's Ministral 3 line: dense, 256K context, tool use, and the size most single-GPU setups settle on.

chatcodingmultilingualtool_use
8.92B
Parameters
256K
Context length
13
Benchmarks
6
Quantizations
132K
HF downloads
Architecture
Dense
Released
2025-12-02
Layers
34
KV Heads
8
Head Dim
128
Family
mistral

Quantization Options

Context length:
QuantBitsVRAM @ 16KQuality
Q4_K_M4.89
7.5 GB
5.9 + 1.6 KV
good
Q5_K_S5.57
8.3 GB
6.7 + 1.6 KV
good
Q5_K_M5.7
8.4 GB
6.8 + 1.6 KV
good
Q6_K6.56
9.4 GB
7.8 + 1.6 KV
excellent
Q8_08.5
11.6 GB
10.0 + 1.6 KV
lossless
FP1616
19.9 GB
18.3 + 1.6 KV
lossless

Select your GPU above to see speed estimates and compatibility for each quantization.

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Benchmarks (13)

MMLU-PRO64.2
GPQA Diamond47.1
AIME31.7
AA Math31.7
LiveCodeBench30.3
IFBench29.1
τ²-Bench26.6
AA Long Context25.3
SciCode20.8
AA Coding9.7
AA Intelligence9.0
Terminal-Bench4.5
HLE4.3

Run this model

▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
DOCS ↗
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
$ollama run ministral-3:8b-instruct-2512-q4_K_M

Downloads and runs automatically. Add --verbose for speed stats.

▸ SETUP GUIDE
>_

Auto-setup with fitmyllm CLI

Detects your GPU, recommends the best model, downloads it, and starts chatting — zero config. Benchmarks your speed and contributes anonymous data to improve predictions.

pip install fitmyllmthen run fitmyllmLearn more
Auto-detect GPULive tok/s in chatSpeed benchmarks9 inference engines
HuggingFaceOllama LibraryGGUF DownloadsBuild Hardware

GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

NVIDIA RTX 3050 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 168 GB/s
NVIDIA
$169
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
Intel Arc A380
6 GB VRAM • 186 GB/s
INTEL
$129
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$150
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$150
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
$80
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA Tesla C2070
6 GB VRAM • 143 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla C2075
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla C2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2070
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2075
6 GB VRAM • 150 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla X2070
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla X2090
6 GB VRAM • 177 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla K20X
6 GB VRAM • 250 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm
6 GB VRAM • 250 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
6 GB VRAM • 192 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104
6 GB VRAM • 336 GB/s
NVIDIA
$140
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
$90
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD Radeon RX 5600M
6 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai

Find the best GPU for Ministral 3 8B

Build Hardware for Ministral 3 8B
▸ SPEC SHEET

Ministral 3 8B — 8.92B Dense.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
8.92B
ARCHITECTURE
Dense Transformer
CONTEXT LENGTH
256K tokens
CAPABILITIES
chat, coding, multilingual, tool_use
RELEASE DATE
2025-12-02
PROVIDER
Mistral AI
FAMILY
mistral
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
Q4_K_M4.895.9 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.576.7 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.76.8 GB96%
Q6_K6.567.8 GB97%
Q8_08.510.0 GB100%
FP161618.3 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
MMLU-PRO64.2
GPQA Diamond47.1
LiveCodeBench30.3
AIME31.7
HLE4.3
AA Intelligence9.0
AA Coding9.7
AA Math31.7
aa_ifbench29.1
aa_terminal_bench4.5
aa_tau226.6
aa_scicode20.8
aa_lcr25.3
§ 02RUN COMMAND

Run Ministral 3 8B locally with Ollama — needs 5.9 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M:

$ollama run ministral-3:8b
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 3050 6GB
6 GB · 168 GB/s
Intel Arc A380
6 GB · 186 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GB
6 GB · 336 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER
6 GB · 336 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti
6 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB · 192 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2070
6 GB · 143 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2075
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla C2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2070
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2075
6 GB · 150 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla X2070
6 GB · 177 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla X2090
6 GB · 177 GB/s