Can I Run DeepSeek R1 on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 20 stycznia 2025

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~6.8 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (9.2 GB, ~78 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Specs

VRAM16 GB
Memory Bandwidth717 GB/s

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 16 GB?Max context
F1629.5 GB✗ No
Q8_016.3 GB✗ No
Q6_K13 GB✓ Yes16K
Q5_K_M11.4 GB✓ Yes16K
Q4_K_M9.9 GB✓ Yes32K
Q3_K_M7.4 GB✓ Yes32K
Q2_K6.1 GB✓ Yes32K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 16 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

DeepSeek R1 Sizes That Fit the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ4_K_M · 9.2 GB · ~78 tok/s (est.)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQ4_K_M · 5.8 GB · ~124 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Will DeepSeek R1 run on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~6.8 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (9.2 GB, ~78 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

Which DeepSeek R1 variant fits best on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M quantization (9.2 GB), estimated ~78 tokens/sec, up to 32K context.

DeepSeek R1 on Other GPUs

Popular Models on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

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