Which 24GB-class model should you run? Mistral Small 24B vs Qwen3.6 27B vs Gemma 4 31B

You've got a 24GB card and three excellent dense models that fit it. Here's how Mistral Small 24B, Qwen3.6 27B and Gemma 4 31B differ on VRAM,… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

All three fit a 24GB card at Q4_K_M, so the choice is about headroom, context and modality. Mistral Small 24B is the leanest (~16.6 GB at Q4, most headroom, 32K context, text only). Qwen3.6 27B sits…

Leanest / most headroom: Mistral Small 24B (~16.6 GB at Q4, 32K context, text).

Longest context + efficient: Qwen3.6 27B (~17.5 GB, 256K context, text).

Most capable + multimodal: Gemma 4 31B (~20.5 GB, 256K context, text + image).

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