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Can the Huawei Ascend 950DT run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B?

Yes โ€” here's how fast and up to what context, with real measured numbers.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B on the Huawei Ascend 950DT

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 1944k 730.3-887.6 t/s ~7.3-8.9 (slow)
Q8 yes 1971k 1460.7-1775.3 t/s ~14.6-17.8 (slow)
Q4 yes 1983k 2608.3-3170.1 t/s ~26.1-31.7 (slow)

Estimate (memory-bound). Beyond "max context" the KV cache spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and speed drops to the "beyond" figure.

FAQ

Can the Huawei Ascend 950DT run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~2608.3-3170.1 tok/s and fits up to 1983k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~26.1-31.7 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 1983k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.