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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 4050 Laptop (6GB) run DeepSeek-R1-Distill 8B?

DeepSeek · Llama 3.1 Community · estimated for a 6.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: DeepSeek-R1-Distill 8B at Q2_K · 3.2 GB · 35–52 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 4050 Laptop (6GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K3.2 GB35–52 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M4.0 GB29–43 tok/sTight / slow
Q4_K_M4.9 GB24–36 tok/sWon't fit
Q5_K_M5.7 GB21–32 tok/sWon't fit
Q6_K6.6 GB19–28 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_08.5 GB15–22 tok/sWon't fit
FP1616.1 GB8–13 tok/sWon't fit

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