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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B?

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

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 no โ€” โ€” โ€”
Q8 no โ€” โ€” โ€”
Q4 yes 11k 46.9-55.9 t/s ~6.5-7.8 (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 4060 Ti 8GB run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~46.9-55.9 tok/s and fits up to 11k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~6.5-7.8 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 11k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.