Can I run MiniMax M3.1 Flash on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?
Key facts
No: it needs about 251 GB and this card has 16 GB of graphics memory.
It needs about 251.2 GB at standard quality (estimate). Checked . unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL GGUF.
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How much memory it needs
That is about 16.3 times what this card has free.
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What runs MiniMax M3.1 Flash instead
Nothing among the 43 graphics cards, PCs and Macs on our list runs it fully.
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For comparison, an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $832€899, new (lowest in-stock EU). Card details
MiniMax M3.1 Flash on other graphics cards
Doesn't fit10
Not enough graphics memory: it needs about 251.2 GB.
- RTX 3060 12GBhas 12 GB
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GBhas 16 GB
- RTX 3090has 24 GB
- RTX 4090has 24 GB
- RTX 5080has 16 GB
- RX 9060 XT 16GBhas 16 GB
- RTX 5090has 32 GB
- RX 7900 XTXhas 24 GB
- Dual RTX 3090has 48 GB
- Dual RTX 4090has 48 GB
More about the model itself, what it is good at and its licence: MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
The numbers behind this answer
A model comes in several sizes. Q4 is the standard one most people use; the bigger ones answer a little better but need more memory. Each row adds up the model file, the memory a conversation takes, and some working space, and compares the total with what is free on this card.
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| Quality | Conversation | Result | Model file | Conversation memory | Working space | Total needed | Free memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 · standard (smallest that keeps quality) | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 249.4 GBmeasured file | 1.0 GB | 0.8 GB | 251.2 GB | 15.4 GB |
| Q5 · a bit sharper, a bit bigger | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 303.9 GB | 1.0 GB | 0.8 GB | 305.7 GB | 15.4 GB |
| Q8 · near full quality, almost twice Q4 | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 458.0 GB | 1.0 GB | 0.8 GB | 459.8 GB | 15.4 GB |
| FP16 · full quality, over three times Q4 | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 856.0 GB | 1.0 GB | 0.8 GB | 857.8 GB | 15.4 GB |
| Q4 · standard, longer conversation | ~49 pages32,768 tokens | Doesn't fit | 249.4 GBmeasured file | 4.0 GB | 0.8 GB | 254.2 GB | 15.4 GB |
speed: not estimated for MoE yet. This model only uses part of itself for each word (a mixture of experts), and our speed estimate does not handle that yet.
Sources and method
Memory and speed on this page are our estimate, not a measured test. Checked . unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL GGUF.
MiniMax's open-weights multimodal mixture of experts: about 428B total, 23B active, context up to 1,048,576 tokens. Open weights under the MiniMax Community Licence. Non-commercial use is free; commercial use needs a credit and a notice to MiniMax, or written permission above US$20 million yearly revenue. This is not an Apache-2.0 licence. On 26 Oct 2026 Unsloth published dynamic GGUFs (https://huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-GGUF, guide https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/minimax-m3.1-flash). UD-Q2_K_XL is 143.9 GB. Unsloth says that 2-bit file runs in about 150 GB of RAM or unified memory, with 91.5% top-1 token agreement, for a 16K context and one slot (Unsloth, with day-zero weights from MiniMax). A 192 GB, 256 GB, or 512 GB Mac Studio, a dual DGX Spark, or an EPYC server with 256 GB of DDR4 or DDR5 is the class that figure points at. UD-Q4_K_XL is 249.4 GB. Unsloth's planning figure for that 4-bit file is 256 GB or more of unified memory, which also covers an eight-node DGX Spark. Official NVFP4 and MXFP8 weights are 252.42 GB and are not a GGUF. Text-only MLX builds remain listed, the smallest of those at 186.49 GB. Our conversation-memory estimate keeps a full cache for every layer; the sparse indexer cache is not modelled.
Some downloads of this model (MLX) only run on Apple Silicon Macs, not on a graphics card.
Questions
- Can I run MiniMax M3.1 Flash on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?
- No: it needs about 251 GB and this card has 16 GB of graphics memory.
- How much memory does MiniMax M3.1 Flash need?
- About 251.2 GB at the standard quality (Q4) for a conversation of up to about 12 pages of text (8,192 tokens), by our estimate: 249.4 GB for the model file (measured), 1.0 GB to hold the conversation and 0.8 GB of working space.
- How fast is MiniMax M3.1 Flash on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?
- We don't give a speed for this model yet. This model only uses part of itself for each word (a mixture of experts), and our speed estimate does not handle that yet.
Speeds and memory are our estimate from the hardware specs, not a measured test. Prices are dated and may change. How we calculate