Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

Mistral family · 3.0B params

1recorded run

94.9best tok/s

1verified

Evidence: 1 sourced run · 1 independent source · first recorded Apr 27, 2026. What these labels mean.

What the Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 numbers mean

The fastest verified result on our board is 94.9 output tok/s on an GTX 1080 Ti at Q4_K_M with a 8192-token context. That is about 10.5 ms per generated token — 500 tokens takes roughly 5.3 seconds. Peak VRAM was measured at 5.3 GB.

How much VRAM does Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 need?

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 has 3.0B parameters. These estimates use the same formula as the VRAM calculator: weights, plus about 15% for a moderate-context KV cache and runtime overhead, plus a small engine floor.

Quantisation	Estimated VRAM	Smallest card that fits
Q4_K_M (4-bit)	2.7 GB	8 GB
Q8_0 (8-bit)	4.5 GB	8 GB
FP16 (16-bit)	7.7 GB	12 GB

Long contexts and large batches raise the real number — read the smallest card as "possible with a reduced context". Measured throughput is on the benchmark board.

Fastest GPUs for this model (best tok/s)

GTX 1080 Ti94.9

Models with a similar footprint

Model	Params	Q4_K_M weights
LFM2.5-2.6B	3B	1.7 GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3B	1.7 GB
OpenLLaMA-3B	3B	1.7 GB
VibeThinker-3B	3B	1.7 GB
gemma-3n-E4B-it-text	4B	2.2 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B	4B	2.2 GB

Ranked by distance from Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512's parameter count. Full benchmark board.

All benchmarks Methodology

GPU	Model	Quant	Backend	Ctx	tok/s	prompt tok/s	VRAM GB	Source
GTX 1080 Ti · 11 GB	Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512	Q4_K_M	llama.cpp 9789512	8192	94.9 ✓	—	5.3	src