Can I Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B on Apple M1?

Superseded model. DeepSeek R1 has been superseded by DeepSeek V4. This page is kept for reference; the newer family is a better starting point. View DeepSeek V4 →

作者: Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新: 2026年7月12日

These figures are for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B, a distill of Qwen2.5-14B — not the full DeepSeek R1. The full DeepSeek R1 (671B) needs about 405 GB of weights at Q4_K_M and is a different model.

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~7.5 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (8.4525 GB, ~4 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

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Apple M1 Specs

VRAM16 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth68 GB/s

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the Apple M1: 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 of unified memory. 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 Apple M1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~4 tok/s (est.)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQ4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~7 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Will DeepSeek R1 run on the Apple M1?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~7.5 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (8.4525 GB, ~4 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

Which DeepSeek R1 variant fits best on the Apple M1?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M quantization (8.4525 GB), estimated ~4 tokens/sec, up to 32K context.

Every DeepSeek R1 size on the Apple M1

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
DeepSeek R1 (671B)405.1 GBDoes not fit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B19.3 GBRuns at Q2_K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B4.8 GBRuns~7 tok/s

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