can-i-run-this-llm

Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 5060 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 · 27–41 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K5.8 GB44–66 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M7.3 GB37–55 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M9.0 GB31–46 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M10.5 GB27–41 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K12.1 GB24–36 tok/sTight / slow
Q8_015.7 GB19–29 tok/sWon't fit
FP1629.6 GB11–16 tok/sWon't fit

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