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Can the NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB 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 H100 PCIe 80GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 1046k 410.1-488.8 t/s ~8.2-9.8 (slow)
Q8 yes 1073k 820.2-977.5 t/s ~16.4-19.6 (slow)
Q4 yes 1085k 1464.7-1745.6 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 H100 PCIe 80GB run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~1464.7-1745.6 tok/s and fits up to 1085k 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 1085k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.