Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 needs ~6.9 GB VRAM. RX 5600 XT 6GB has 6.0 GB. With Q3_K_S quantization, expect ~25 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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1.7 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
16.6 tok/s
TTFT
11648 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
7.7 GB / 6.0 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 10% 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 0.4 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | C | Very compromised (needs ~0.5 GB host RAM) | 22.1 tok/s | 4780 ms | 4K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 16.6 tok/s | 11648 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 10.3 tok/s | 27233 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 16.6 tok/s | 13766 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 10.3 tok/s | 34042 ms | 4K |
How Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 (7B params) fits at each quantization level on RX 5600 XT 6GB (6.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 2.7 GB | Low | B66 |
Q3_K_SBest for your GPU | 3 | 3.4 GB | Low | B66 |
NVFP4 | 4 | 3.9 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 4.3 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 5.0 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 5.7 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 7.5 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 14.3 GB | Maximum | F0 |
Copy-paste commands to run Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 on your machine.
Run
lms load Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 && lms server startUpgrade-Optionen
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Yes, RX 5600 XT 6GB can run Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 at Q3_K_S quantization (Very compromised (needs ~0.4 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q4_K_M requires 7.7 GB which exceeds available memory, but at Q3_K_S it needs only 6.9 GB. Expected decode speed: 24.5 tok/s.
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 (7B parameters) requires approximately 7.7 GB at Q4_K_M quantization. On RX 5600 XT 6GB, it fits at Q3_K_S using 6.9 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q4_K_M, but on RX 5600 XT 6GB the best fitting quantization is Q3_K_S, which uses 6.9 GB.
On RX 5600 XT 6GB, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 achieves approximately 24.5 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 7896ms using Q3_K_S quantization.
For coding workloads, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 on RX 5600 XT 6GB receives a F grade with 16.6 tok/s and 4K context.
On RX 5600 XT 6GB, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 can safely use up to 8K tokens of context at Q3_K_S quantization. The model's official context limit is 8K, 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.
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