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Home/DeepSeek R1 671B/on MacBook Air M4 24GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Air M4 24GB run DeepSeek R1 671B?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

2.0 tok/s

TTFT

96800 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

420.1 GB / 17.3 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights409.3 GB
KV Cache5.8 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom2.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy2.0 tok/s140800 ms4K
ChatFToo heavy2.0 tok/s52800 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy2.0 tok/s96800 ms4K
RAGFToo heavy2.0 tok/s176000 ms4K
ReasoningFToo heavy2.0 tok/s114400 ms4K

Quantization options

How DeepSeek R1 671B (671B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Air M4 24GB (17.3 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
261.7 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
328.8 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
375.8 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
409.3 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
483.1 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
550.2 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
718.0 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
1375.6 GB
MaximumF0
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