Can I Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

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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, but it's tight — DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M needs 8.4525 GB of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)'s 10 GB, leaving only ~1.5 GB, ~46 tok/s (est.) with room for up to 4K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB) Specs

VRAM10 GB
Memory Bandwidth760 GB/s

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB): VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 10 GB?Max context
F1629.5 GB✗ No—
Q8_016.3 GB✗ No—
Q6_K13 GB✗ No—
Q5_K_M11.4 GB✗ No—
Q4_K_M9.9 GB✓ Yes4K
Q3_K_M7.4 GB✓ Yes16K
Q2_K6.1 GB✓ Yes16K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 10 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~46 tok/s (est.)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQ4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~74 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

DeepSeek R1 on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB) — does it fit?

Yes, but it's tight — DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M needs 8.4525 GB of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)'s 10 GB, leaving only ~1.5 GB, ~46 tok/s (est.) with room for up to 4K context.

Which DeepSeek R1 variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M quantization (8.4525 GB), estimated ~46 tokens/sec, up to 4K context.

Every DeepSeek R1 size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
DeepSeek R1 (671B)405.1 GBDoes not fit—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B19.3 GBDoes not fit—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B4.8 GBRuns~74 tok/s

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