Mistral Nemo 12B

by Mistral AI · mistral family

12B

parameters

text-generation code-generation reasoning multilingual tool-use summarization

Mistral Nemo 12B was built jointly by Mistral AI and NVIDIA. It features a 128K context window and uses a Tekken tokenizer that's more efficient across languages than prior Mistral models. With 3.4M+ Ollama pulls, it's one of the most popular models at its size. At Q4 it fits on 12 GB GPUs comfortably, making it a strong contender alongside Gemma 3 12B. Excellent at function calling, multilingual tasks, and general instruction following.

Quick Start with Ollama

ollama run 12b-instruct-q4_K_M
Resources Ollama Hugging Face Official Page
Creator Mistral AI
Parameters 12B
Architecture transformer-decoder
Context 128K tokens
Released Jul 18, 2024
License Apache 2.0
Ollama mistral-nemo

Quantization Options

Format File Size VRAM Required Quality Ollama Tag
Q4_K_M rec 7.1 GB 9.5 GB
12b-instruct-q4_K_M
Q8_0 12.9 GB 16 GB
12b-instruct-q8_0
F16 24.5 GB 28 GB
12b-instruct-fp16

Compatible Hardware

for Q4_K_M (9.5 GB VRAM)

Compatible Hardware

Hardware VRAM Type Fit Est. Speed
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 512GB 512 GB mac Runs ~86 tok/s
Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB 192 GB mac Runs ~84 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 192GB 192 GB mac Runs ~86 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB 128 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 128 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Max 96GB 96 GB mac Runs ~42 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~29 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~29 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Max 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~42 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~29 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB 36 GB mac Runs ~57 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Pro 36GB 36 GB mac Runs ~16 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB gpu Runs ~189 tok/s
iMac M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
Mac mini M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB gpu Runs ~101 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB gpu Runs ~99 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB gpu Runs ~106 tok/s
iMac M3 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~11 tok/s
Mac mini M2 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~11 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~29 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~11 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~29 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB gpu Runs ~84 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GB 18 GB mac Runs ~16 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB gpu Runs ~54 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB gpu Runs ~66 tok/s
Intel Arc A770 16 GB gpu Runs ~59 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB gpu Runs ~30 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB gpu Runs ~71 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16 GB gpu Runs ~77 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB gpu Runs ~75 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB gpu Runs ~94 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB gpu Runs ~101 tok/s
iMac M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~7 tok/s
iMac M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
Mac mini M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~7 tok/s
Mac mini M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~11 tok/s
MacBook Air M3 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~11 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~13 tok/s
MacBook Pro M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~7 tok/s
MacBook Pro M2 Pro 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~21 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB gpu Runs ~45 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB gpu Runs ~38 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB 12 GB gpu Runs ~96 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12 GB gpu Runs ~53 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB gpu Runs ~53 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB gpu Runs ~53 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB gpu Runs ~71 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB gpu Runs (tight) ~65 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 10 GB gpu Runs (tight) ~80 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~30 tok/s
Intel Arc A750 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~54 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~47 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~47 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~30 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB gpu CPU Offload ~29 tok/s
MacBook Air M1 8GB 8 GB mac CPU Offload ~7 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 8GB 8 GB mac CPU Offload ~11 tok/s

Benchmark Scores

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