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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 Ti

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 91k 187-222.9 t/s ~8.2-9.8 (slow)
Q8 yes 118k 374-445.8 t/s ~16.4-19.6 (slow)
Q4 yes 130k 667.9-796 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 3080 Ti run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~667.9-796 tok/s and fits up to 130k 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 130k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.