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Mistral AIPixtral 12B

Pixtral 12B — Mistral's first vision model. Understands images and code.

visionchatcodingThinking
12B
Parameters
128K
Context length
9
Benchmarks
10
Quantizations
380K
HF downloads
Architecture
Dense
Released
2024-09-17
Layers
40
KV Heads
8
Head Dim
128
Family
mistral

Quantization Options

QuantBitsVRAMQuality
Q3_K_M46.5 GBlow
Q3_K_L4.36.9 GBmoderate
IQ4_XS4.467.2 GBmoderate
Q4_K_S4.677.5 GBmoderate
Q4_K_M4.897.8 GBgood
Q5_K_S5.578.8 GBgood
Q5_K_M5.79.0 GBgood
Q6_K6.5610.3 GBexcellent
Q8_08.513.2 GBlossless
FP161624.5 GBlossless

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

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Benchmarks (9)

MMBench78.0
IFEval72.0
MMLU-PRO58.0
BBH58.0
MMMU52.5
HumanEval52.0
MATH42.0
GPQA38.0
MUSR18.0

Run this model

▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
DOCS ↗
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
$ollama run pixtral:12b-2409-q4_K_M

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

▸ SETUP GUIDE
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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 4060 Ti 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
$399
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 4060
8 GB VRAM • 272 GB/s
NVIDIA
$299
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 608 GB/s
NVIDIA
$499
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 3070
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$325
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$250
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 3050 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
NVIDIA
$249
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 7600
8 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
AMD
$269
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 6650 XT
8 GB VRAM • 280 GB/s
AMD
$399
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
Intel Arc A750
8 GB VRAM • 512 GB/s
INTEL
$199
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
Apple M1 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 68 GB/s
APPLE
$499
Apple M2 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$599
Apple M3 (8GB)
8 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$599
NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 496 GB/s
NVIDIA
$280
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 2080
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$260
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$240
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 2070
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$200
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$180
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GTX 1080
8 GB VRAM • 320 GB/s
NVIDIA
$130
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
NVIDIA
$120
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA GTX 1070
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
NVIDIA
$100
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 3060 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
NVIDIA
$280
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 6600 XT
8 GB VRAM • 256 GB/s
AMD
$200
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 6600
8 GB VRAM • 224 GB/s
AMD
$165
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 5700 XT
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
AMD
$150
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
AMD RX 5700
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
AMD
$130
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
Intel Arc A580
8 GB VRAM • 512 GB/s
INTEL
$179
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$379
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA RTX 5060
8 GB VRAM • 448 GB/s
NVIDIA
$299
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPicker
NVIDIA Tesla K8
8 GB VRAM • 160 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla M60
8 GB VRAM • 160 GB/s
NVIDIA

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Pixtral 12B — Mistral's first vision model. Understands images and code.

▸ SPEC SHEET

Pixtral 12B — 12B Dense.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
12B
ARCHITECTURE
Dense Transformer
CONTEXT LENGTH
128K tokens
CAPABILITIES
vision, chat, coding
RELEASE DATE
2024-09-17
PROVIDER
Mistral AI
FAMILY
mistral
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
Q3_K_M46.5 GB88%
Q3_K_L4.36.9 GB90%
IQ4_XS4.467.2 GB92%
Q4_K_S4.677.5 GB93%
Q4_K_M4.897.8 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.578.8 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.79.0 GB96%
Q6_K6.5610.3 GB97%
Q8_08.513.2 GB100%
FP161624.5 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
HumanEval52.0
MMLU-PRO58.0
MATH42.0
IFEval72.0
BBH58.0
MMMU52.5
GPQA38.0
MUSR18.0
MMBench78.0
§ 02RUN COMMAND

Run Pixtral 12B locally with Ollama — needs 7.8 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M:

$ollama run pixtral:12b
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
8 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 4060
8 GB · 272 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti
8 GB · 608 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3070
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3050 8GB
8 GB · 224 GB/s
AMD RX 7600
8 GB · 288 GB/s
AMD RX 6650 XT
8 GB · 280 GB/s
Intel Arc A750
8 GB · 512 GB/s
Apple M1 (8GB)
8 GB · 68 GB/s
Apple M2 (8GB)
8 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M3 (8GB)
8 GB · 100 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER
8 GB · 496 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2080
8 GB · 448 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER
8 GB · 448 GB/s