can-i-run-this-llm

Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) run DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B?

DeepSeek · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 16.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B at Q5_K_M · 10.5 GB · 18–27 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (16GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K5.8 GB30–45 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M7.3 GB24–37 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M9.0 GB20–31 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M10.5 GB18–27 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K12.1 GB16–24 tok/sTight / slow
Q8_015.7 GB12–19 tok/sWon't fit
FP1629.6 GB7–10 tok/sWon't fit

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