DeepSeek on NVIDIA Blackwell
Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)?
Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M uses 6.1 GB of the 96.0 GB available on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10), and runs at about 35.1 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.
Runs comfortably
6.1 GB of 96.0 GB · 6%096 GB
Weights
4.6 GB
KV cache
1.0 GB
Runtime overhead
0.5 GB
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M leaves 89.9 GB spare on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10). There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.
Generation35.1tok/s
Prompt processing3269tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)
Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.
| Quantisation | bpw | Weights | Total | Verdict | Max ctx | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 16.00 | 15.0 GB | 16.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 11.6 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 21.9 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 21.9 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 7.5 GB | 9.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 22.5 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 6.1 GB | 7.7 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 27.1 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 6.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 30.4 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 6.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 30.4 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 6.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 30.4 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 5.3 GB | 6.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 30.9 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 5.2 GB | 6.7 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 31.7 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 4.6 GB | 6.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 35.1 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 4.4 GB | 5.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 36.6 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 4.4 GB | 5.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 36.8 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 4.1 GB | 5.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 38.7 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 3.8 GB | 5.4 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 41.2 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 3.7 GB | 5.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 42.8 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 3.2 GB | 4.7 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 48.9 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 2.8 GB | 4.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 54.0 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 2.3 GB | 3.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 62.6 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 2.1 GB | 3.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 68.6 |