LLM GPU requirements

Mistral Small 24B GPU requirements: VRAM, GPUs and servers

How much GPU memory Mistral Small 24B needs in BF16, FP8 and 4-bit, how its KV cache grows with context, what fine-tuning takes, and which servers run it, with monthly prices.

Parameters: 23.6B
Architecture: Dense 40 layers
KV heads: 8 × 128 dim
Context: 128k tokens

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Cheapest servers that run it

FP8 weights · 8k context · 8 concurrent requests · about 38 GB

NVIDIA L40S In stock

48 GB GDDR6 · Single GPU

$890/mo
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell In stock

96 GB GDDR7 · Single GPU

$1,390/mo
NVIDIA H100 SXM In stock

80 GB HBM3 · Single GPU

$2,190/mo

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Inference memory

How much VRAM Mistral Small 24B needs

Weights take parameters × bytes per parameter. Serving adds the KV cache and about 10% runtime overhead; the totals below assume an 8k context with 8 concurrent requests and a BF16 KV cache.

Mistral Small 24B memory by precision and the cheapest server that fits
Precision	Weights	Total to serve	Cheapest server that fits
BF16 2 bytes per parameter	47 GB	64 GB	NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell $1,390/mo
FP8 1 byte per parameter	24 GB	38 GB	NVIDIA L40S $890/mo
4-bit 0.5 bytes per parameter	12 GB	25 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 $449/mo

GGUF quantizations for llama.cpp and Ollama

Mistral Small 24B GGUF file sizes and the smallest GPU for one 8k request
Quantization	Weights	Smallest GPU, one 8k request
Q8_0 about 8.5 bits per weight	25 GB	NVIDIA L40S 48 GB · $890/mo
Q6_K about 6.56 bits per weight	19 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB · $449/mo
Q5_K_M about 5.69 bits per weight	17 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB · $449/mo
Q4_K_M about 4.85 bits per weight	14 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB · $449/mo

Estimates with about 8% of GPU memory kept free. Quantized weights also keep some layers in higher precision, and frameworks differ in overhead; check the free memory your engine reports at startup. A model split across GPUs with tensor parallelism runs best on NVLink servers (HGX); the 8× RTX PRO 6000 server links its GPUs over PCIe.

GPUs and servers

Which GPUs can run Mistral Small 24B?

Yes. In FP8, a single NVIDIA L40S (48 GB, $890 a month at OverGPU) runs Mistral Small 24B with an 8k context and 8 concurrent requests; one NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32 GB) holds a single 8k request. The table checks every configuration we rent in each precision.

Whether each GPU configuration runs Mistral Small 24B in BF16, FP8 and 4-bit
Configuration	BF16	FP8	4-bit
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB · $449/mo	—	1 req	Yes
NVIDIA L40S 48 GB · $890/mo	—	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB · $2,190/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB · $1,390/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA H200 141 GB · $3,090/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA B200 180 GB · $4,590/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA B300 288 GB · $5,190/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× NVIDIA HGX H100 8 × 80 GB · $16,900/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 8 × 96 GB · $10,490/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× NVIDIA HGX H200 8 × 141 GB · $23,900/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× NVIDIA HGX B200 8 × 180 GB · $34,900/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× NVIDIA HGX B300 8 × 288 GB · $39,900/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes
8× AMD Instinct MI355X 8 × 288 GB · $19,900/mo	Yes	Yes	Yes

Yes: 8 concurrent requests with an 8k context each. 1 req: a single 8k request at a time. —: the weights, KV cache and runtime do not fit. Same formulas as the tables above, with about 8% of GPU memory kept free.

KV cache

Mistral Small 24B KV cache by context length

Each token in flight stores keys and values for every layer: 2 × 40 layers × 8 KV heads × 128 dimensions × 2 bytes = 160 KB per token in BF16. An FP8 KV cache halves these figures.

KV cache size by context length and number of concurrent requests
Context per request	1 request	8 requests	32 requests
4k tokens	671 MB	5.4 GB	21 GB
32k tokens	5.4 GB	43 GB	172 GB
128k tokens	21 GB	172 GB	687 GB

Fine-tuning

Memory to fine-tune Mistral Small 24B

Rough totals before tuning batch size and sequence length: QLoRA keeps 4-bit base weights, LoRA keeps BF16 weights frozen, and a full fine-tune with AdamW needs about 16 bytes per parameter plus activations, sharded across GPUs.

Fine-tuning memory by method and the cheapest server that fits
Method	Approximate memory	Cheapest server that fits
QLoRA (4-bit base)	18 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 $449/mo
LoRA (BF16 base)	59 GB	NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell $1,390/mo
Full fine-tune (AdamW, mixed precision)	453 GB	8× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell $10,490/mo

Full fine-tuning assumes sharded training (FSDP or ZeRO-3) with activation checkpointing. See the fine-tuning guide for methods and settings.

About Mistral Small 24B

Mistral Small 3.x is a 24B dense model family (about 23.6B parameters) with 40 layers and 8 KV heads, released under Apache 2.0; versions 3.1 and later accept a 128k-token context. It sits between the 14B and 32B classes: in BF16 its weights take about 47 GB, and FP8 halves that.

Every figure on this page comes from the model’s published architecture and the same formulas as our VRAM calculator, where you can change the context length, concurrency and KV cache precision.

Model facts

Developer: Mistral AI
License: Apache 2.0
Type: Dense
Parameters: 23.6B
Layers: 40
Attention: 32 query heads, 8 KV headsgrouped-query attention, head dimension 128
Context window: 128k tokens (3.1 and later)

FAQ

Mistral Small 24B GPU FAQ

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How much VRAM does Mistral Small 24B need?

About 47 GB for the weights in BF16, 24 GB in FP8 and 12 GB in 4-bit, plus the KV cache: about 164 MB per 1,000 tokens in flight with a BF16 cache. Serving it in FP8 with an 8k context and 8 concurrent requests takes about 38 GB in total.

Can Mistral Small 24B run on a single GPU?

Yes. In FP8, a single NVIDIA L40S (48 GB) serves it with an 8k context and 8 concurrent requests. Longer contexts or more users need more memory for the KV cache, so check your case in the VRAM calculator.

What is the cheapest OverGPU server for Mistral Small 24B?

For FP8 serving with an 8k context and 8 concurrent requests, the NVIDIA L40S at $890 per month is the lowest-priced configuration that fits. For other contexts and concurrency, size it in the VRAM calculator.

How much memory do I need to fine-tune Mistral Small 24B?

Roughly 18 GB with QLoRA, 59 GB with LoRA on BF16 weights, and 453 GB for a full fine-tune with AdamW in mixed precision, before tuning batch size and sequence length. Full fine-tunes of large models are sharded across GPUs with FSDP or ZeRO-3.

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