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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA A100 (80GB) run DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B?

DeepSeek · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 80.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B at FP16 · 29.6 GB · 44–66 tok/s on a NVIDIA A100 (80GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K5.8 GB141–211 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M7.3 GB123–184 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M9.0 GB108–162 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M10.5 GB98–146 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K12.1 GB88–133 tok/sRuns great
Q8_015.7 GB73–110 tok/sRuns great
FP1629.6 GB44–66 tok/sRuns great

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