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Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on an RTX 6000 Ada?

Yes

Its published weights (16.1 GB) fit in the 43.2 GB an RTX 6000 Ada can use, with room for ≈ 128K tokens of context.

Full analysis of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Everything that runs on RTX 6000 Ada Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on RTX 6000 Ada

Each file of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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 6000 Ada Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published16.1 GBFits128K128K
4-bit (estimate)4.52 GBFits128K128K

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on other hardware

Popular models that run on RTX 6000 Ada

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