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Can the Radeon RX 9070 run Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506?

Yes. The Q4_K_M GGUF of Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is 14.33 GB (source). With our 1.5 GB allowance for runtime and short-context cache it needs about 15.8 GB, leaving 0.2 GB of the card's 16 GB free. Expected speed: ~34 tok/s estimate. Lowest tracked price: low $570, avg $1,052 (new) source, 2026-10-16, which works out to $17 per tok/s (#1 of 12 priced GPUs that fit this model).

Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Speed is a bandwidth-based estimate (644.6 GB/s, TechPowerUp), not a benchmark. Long contexts need more memory than our allowance.

Tight fit: under 3 GB spare means long prompts or a bigger context window may not fit. Consider a smaller quant or a card with more VRAM.

Next size up: gemma-3-27b-it (16.55 GB at Q4_K_M) needs ~18.1 GB and does not fit on one AMD Radeon RX 9070. See what runs gemma-3-27b-it.

Every priced GPU that runs Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506, by cost per token/sec

GPUVRAMSpeed estimateLow price$ per tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 907016 GB~34 tok/s$570 (new)$17
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT16 GB~33 tok/s$599 (new)$18
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti16 GB~48 tok/s$1,120 (new)$23
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT16 GB~34 tok/s$810 (new)$24
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX24 GB~51 tok/s$1,350 (new)$26
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 508016 GB~51 tok/s$1,600 (new)$31
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB16 GB~24 tok/s$780 (new)$33
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB16 GB~17 tok/s$620 (new)$36
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 309024 GB~50 tok/s$1,889 (used)$38
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 409024 GB~54 tok/s$3,200 (used)$59
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 509032 GB~95 tok/s$6,500 (new)$68
NVIDIA RTX A600048 GB~41 tok/s$6,170 (new)$150

Prices: picksbycard read of Newegg listings, 2026-10-16. Prices move daily.

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