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Can I run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B on an RTX 5090?

Yes

Its published weights (16.4 GB) fit in the 28.8 GB an RTX 5090 can use, with room for ≈ 82K tokens of context.

Full analysis of DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Everything that runs on RTX 5090 Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on RTX 5090

Each file of DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

FileSizeOn RTX 5090 Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published16.4 GBFits82K128K
4-bit (estimate)4.61 GBFits128K128K

DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B on other hardware

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