Can I Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

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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-Llama-8B, a distill of Llama-3.1-8B — 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 ~3.2 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B at Q4_K_M (4.83 GB, ~47 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Specs

VRAM8 GB
Memory Bandwidth448 GB/s

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 8 GB?Max context
F1617.3 GB✗ No
Q8_09.8 GB✗ No
Q6_K7.9 GB✓ Yes4K
Q5_K_M7 GB✓ Yes8K
Q4_K_M6.2 GB✓ Yes16K
Q3_K_M4.7 GB✓ Yes16K
Q2_K4 GB✓ Yes32K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 8 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 3070

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQ4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~47 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

DeepSeek R1 on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.2 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B at Q4_K_M (4.83 GB, ~47 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

Which DeepSeek R1 variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B at Q4_K_M quantization (4.83 GB), estimated ~47 tokens/sec, up to 16K context.

Every DeepSeek R1 size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
DeepSeek R1 (671B)405.1 GBDoes not fit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B19.3 GBDoes not fit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B8.5 GBRuns at Q2_K

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