Pixtral 12B (2409) on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition

Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition run Pixtral 12B (2409)?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 31.5 GB of 96.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 41.6 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 41.6 tok/s
Prompt processing: 6,387 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 128K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition

On Windows

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
On Windows it runs through WSL2.

vllm serve mistralai/Pixtral-12B-2409

SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
Docker Model Runner Handy if you already work in Docker.

On Linux

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

vllm serve mistralai/Pixtral-12B-2409

SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
Docker Model Runner Handy if you already work in Docker.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Pixtral 12B (2409)

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Mistral AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/mistralai/Pixtral-12B-2409 (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	22.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	7.6 / 15
Match score	70.1 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	11.7 GB	96.0 GB	291 tok/s	Runs great	35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	12.8 GB	96.0 GB	229 tok/s	Runs great	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	14.3 GB	96.0 GB	177 tok/s	Runs great	47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	15.5 GB	96.0 GB	147 tok/s	Runs great	48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	16.9 GB	96.0 GB	123 tok/s	Runs great	49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	19.9 GB	96.0 GB	90.3 tok/s	Runs great	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	31.5 GB	96.0 GB	41.6 tok/s	Runs great	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q8_0 · 41.7 tok/s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 47.2 tok/s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 50.8 tok/s · Runs great
49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q6_K · 46.2 tok/s · Runs great
49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q6_K · 50.6 tok/s · Runs great
49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q6_K · 61.5 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Pixtral 12B (2409) need on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

At F16 it needs about 31.5 GB. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB has 96.0 GB usable.

How fast is Pixtral 12B (2409) on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

About 41.6 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Pixtral 12B (2409) should I use on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.