Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 needs ~19.1 GB VRAM. RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB has 16.0 GB. With NVFP4 quantization, expect ~26 tok/s.
Operating mode
Interactive favors responsiveness, while light API and scale-out lean harder on serving readiness. The fit stays the same, but the recommendation lens changes.
Current mode
Balanced
Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
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4.3 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
20.1 tok/s
TTFT
9621 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
20.3 GB / 16.0 GB
Offload
20%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 20% of the working set spills out of accelerator memory, which usually hurts latency and sustained decode throughput.
Very little memory headroom
You can run the model, but there is not much room left for longer context, bigger batches, extra apps, or future model updates.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory
Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Buy headroom, not only minimum fit
A slightly larger memory tier gives you safer context growth and makes the recommendation more future-proof.
Increase host RAM if you keep offloading
This setup may need roughly 2.2 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | D | Very compromised | 23.4 tok/s | 4510 ms | 4K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 20.1 tok/s | 9621 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 15.3 tok/s | 18400 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 20.1 tok/s | 11370 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 15.3 tok/s | 23000 ms | 4K |
How Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 (24B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB (16.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 9.4 GB | Low | C51 |
Q3_K_SBest for your GPU | 3 | 11.8 GB | Low | C51 |
Copy-paste commands to run Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 on your machine.
Run
lms load hf-maziyarpanahi--mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-gguf && lms server startUpgrade options
RTX 4000 Ada 20GBBudget pickMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,250 MSRP
RTX 3090 24GBBest valueMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,499 MSRP
RTX 4090 24GBNVIDIA upgradeMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,599 MSRP
Yes, RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB can run Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 at NVFP4 quantization (Very compromised (needs ~2.2 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q4_K_M requires 20.3 GB which exceeds available memory, but at NVFP4 it needs only 19.1 GB. Expected decode speed: 26.2 tok/s.
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 (24B parameters) requires approximately 20.3 GB at Q4_K_M quantization. On RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB, it fits at NVFP4 using 19.1 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q4_K_M, but on RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB the best fitting quantization is NVFP4, which uses 19.1 GB.
On RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB, Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 achieves approximately 26.2 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 7397ms using NVFP4 quantization.
For coding workloads, Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 on RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB receives a F grade with 20.1 tok/s and 4K context.
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Preview:
| 4 |
13.4 GB |
| Medium |
| F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 14.6 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 17.3 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 19.7 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 25.7 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 49.2 GB | Maximum | F0 |
On RTX 5080 Laptop 16GB, Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 can safely use up to 4K tokens of context at NVFP4 quantization. The model's official context limit is —, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory. Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.