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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B

deepseek-ai · open license · on Arena since 20 Jan 2025

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Size7.6 Bparameters
4-bit download4.6 GBweights only, Q4_K_M
Max context128Ktokens, from the model config

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Speed on popular hardware

HardwareGPU memoryFits?Speed
RTX 3060 12 GB12 GBFits in GPU39 tok/s
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB16 GBFits in GPU31 tok/s
RTX 309024 GBFits in GPU101 tok/s
RTX 409024 GBFits in GPU109 tok/s
RTX 509032 GBFits in GPU193 tok/s
RX 7900 XTX24 GBFits in GPU104 tok/s
2 × RTX 309048 GBFits in GPU98 tok/s
4 × RTX 309096 GBFits in GPU93 tok/s
Mac M4 Max 128 GB96 GBFits in GPU59 tok/s
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128 GB96 GBFits in GPU28 tok/s
8 × H100 SXM640 GBFits in GPU299 tok/s

Estimate at 4-bit with 32K context, 64 GB of DDR5 for offload. Speed ≈ memory bandwidth × 70% ÷ data read per token; real numbers vary by about ±30%.

GPU memory needed

Level8K context32K context128K contextQuality vs full
Q3_K_M4.9 GB6.3 GB12 GB+10.5% noticeable loss
Q4_K_M5.7 GB7.1 GB13 GB+2.8% small loss
Q5_K_M6.5 GB7.9 GB14 GB+0.9% very small loss
Q6_K7.3 GB8.7 GB14 GB+0.3% near-lossless
Q8_09.1 GB11 GB16 GB≈ 0% same as full
F1616 GB18 GB23 GB≈ 0% same as full

Weights + context cache (from the model's architecture) + runtime. Quality: increase in perplexity against the full model, from llama.cpp tests, scaled by model size. Simulate your own setup.