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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 35k 124.7-148.6 t/s ~8.2-9.8 (slow)
Q8 yes 62k 249.3-297.2 t/s ~16.4-19.6 (slow)
Q4 yes 74k 445.3-530.7 t/s ~29.3-34.9 (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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~445.3-530.7 tok/s and fits up to 74k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~29.3-34.9 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 74k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.