DeepSeek on NVIDIA Ampere
Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B on an RTX A6000?
Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B at Q4_K_M uses 21.5 GB of the 44.3 GB available on a RTX A6000, and runs at about 24.3 tokens per second. You can push the context to 99K.
Runs comfortably
21.5 GB of 44.3 GB · 48%044 GB
Weights
18.6 GB
KV cache
2.0 GB
Runtime overhead
0.8 GB
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B at Q4_K_M leaves 22.9 GB spare on a RTX A6000. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.
Generation24.3tok/s
Prompt processing481tok/s
Max context99Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B on a RTX A6000
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 | 61.0 GB | 63.9 GB | Won't fit | — | 1.68 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 32.1 GB | 34.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 46K | 14.5 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 32.1 GB | 34.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 46K | 14.5 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 30.5 GB | 33.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 52K | 15.2 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 25.0 GB | 27.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 74K | 18.3 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 21.6 GB | 24.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 87K | 21.1 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 21.1 GB | 23.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 90K | 21.6 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 18.6 GB | 21.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 99K | 24.3 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 18.3 GB | 21.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 101K | 24.6 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 18.3 GB | 21.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 101K | 24.6 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 18.3 GB | 21.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 101K | 24.6 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 17.6 GB | 20.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 103K | 25.5 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 17.5 GB | 20.4 GB | Runs comfortably | 104K | 25.7 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 16.4 GB | 19.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 108K | 27.3 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 15.2 GB | 18.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 113K | 29.3 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 14.4 GB | 17.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 116K | 30.8 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 12.1 GB | 15.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 125K | 36.2 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 10.6 GB | 13.4 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 41.0 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 8.5 GB | 11.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 49.7 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 7.4 GB | 10.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 56.3 |