DeepSeek on AMD RDNA3
Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on an Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M uses 6.4 GB of the 21.8 GB available on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, and runs at about 105 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.
Runs comfortably
6.4 GB of 21.8 GB · 30%022 GB
Weights
4.6 GB
KV cache
1.0 GB
Runtime overhead
0.8 GB
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B at Q4_K_M leaves 15.3 GB spare on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.
Generation105tok/s
Prompt processing3217tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX
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 | 16.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 48K | 35.1 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 106K | 65.7 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 7.7 GB | 9.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 106K | 65.7 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 7.5 GB | 9.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 108K | 67.6 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 6.1 GB | 8.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 118K | 81.1 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 124K | 90.8 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 124K | 90.8 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 5.4 GB | 7.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 124K | 90.8 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 5.3 GB | 7.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 125K | 92.5 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 5.2 GB | 7.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 126K | 94.8 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 4.6 GB | 6.4 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 105 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 4.4 GB | 6.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 109 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 4.4 GB | 6.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 110 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 4.1 GB | 5.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 115 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 3.8 GB | 5.7 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 123 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 3.7 GB | 5.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 128 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 3.2 GB | 5.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 145 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 2.8 GB | 4.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 160 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 2.3 GB | 4.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 185 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 2.1 GB | 3.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 202 |