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Can I run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX?

Yes

Its published weights (15.2 GB) fit in the 21.6 GB a Radeon RX 7900 XTX can use, with room for ≈ 108K tokens of context.

Full analysis of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B Everything that runs on Radeon RX 7900 XTX Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Each file of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (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 7900 XTX Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published15.2 GBFits108K128K
4-bit (estimate)4.28 GBFits128K128K

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B 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.