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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (96GB) run DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B?

DeepSeek · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 96.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B at FP16 · 29.6 GB · 39–58 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (96GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K5.8 GB130–195 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M7.3 GB113–169 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M9.0 GB99–148 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M10.5 GB89–133 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K12.1 GB80–120 tok/sRuns great
Q8_015.7 GB66–99 tok/sRuns great
FP1629.6 GB39–58 tok/sRuns great

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