Can I Run DeepSeek R1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

作者: Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新: 2025年1月20日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~2.8 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (9.2 GB, ~39 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) Specs

VRAM12 GB
Memory Bandwidth360 GB/s

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB): VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 12 GB?Max context
F1629.5 GB✗ No
Q8_016.3 GB✗ No
Q6_K13 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M11.4 GB✓ Yes4K
Q4_K_M9.9 GB✓ Yes16K
Q3_K_M7.4 GB✓ Yes16K
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 12 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 3060 (12GB)

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ4_K_M · 9.2 GB · ~39 tok/s (est.)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQ4_K_M · 5.8 GB · ~62 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

DeepSeek R1 on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~2.8 GB of headroom running DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M (9.2 GB, ~39 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

Which DeepSeek R1 variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M quantization (9.2 GB), estimated ~39 tokens/sec, up to 16K context.

DeepSeek R1 on Other GPUs

Popular Models on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

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