DeepSeek on NVIDIA Ada
Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?
Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M uses 6.4 GB of the 14.2 GB available on a RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, and runs at about 33.6 tokens per second. You can push the context to 70K.
Runs comfortably
6.4 GB of 14.2 GB · 45%014 GB
Weights
4.6 GB
KV cache
1.0 GB
Runtime overhead
0.8 GB
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M leaves 7.8 GB spare on a RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.
Generation33.6tok/s
Prompt processing1151tok/s
Max context70Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on a RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.
| Quantisation | bpw | Weights | Total | Verdict | Max ctx | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 16.00 | 15.0 GB | 16.8 GB | Won't fit | — | 6.73 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 46K | 21.0 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 46K | 21.0 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 7.5 GB | 9.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 48K | 21.6 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 6.1 GB | 8.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 58K | 25.9 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 64K | 29.1 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 64K | 29.1 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 64K | 29.1 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 5.3 GB | 7.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 65K | 29.6 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 5.2 GB | 7.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 66K | 30.3 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 4.6 GB | 6.4 GB | Runs comfortably | 70K | 33.6 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 4.4 GB | 6.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 72K | 35.1 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 4.4 GB | 6.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 72K | 35.2 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 4.1 GB | 5.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 74K | 37.1 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 3.8 GB | 5.7 GB | Runs comfortably | 77K | 39.4 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 3.7 GB | 5.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 78K | 41.0 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 3.2 GB | 5.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 82K | 46.8 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 2.8 GB | 4.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 85K | 51.7 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 2.3 GB | 4.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 89K | 60.0 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 2.1 GB | 3.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 91K | 65.7 |