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Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B on a Radeon RX 9070 XT?

Yes

Its published weights (3.55 GB) fit in the 14.4 GB a Radeon RX 9070 XT can use, with room for ≈ 128K tokens of context.

Full analysis of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Everything that runs on Radeon RX 9070 XT Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on Radeon RX 9070 XT

Each file of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (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 Radeon RX 9070 XT Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published3.55 GBFits128K128K
4-bit (estimate)1000 MBFits128K128K

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B on other hardware

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Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.