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Home/DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B/on NVIDIA A30 24GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A30 24GB run DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

85.2 tok/s

TTFT

2272 ms

Safe context

27K

Memory

14.3 GB / 24.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights8.5 GB
KV Cache2.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom2.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well85.2 tok/s3305 ms33K
ChatCRuns well85.2 tok/s1239 ms15K
CodingCRuns well85.2 tok/s2272 ms27K
RAGBRuns well85.2 tok/s4131 ms33K
ReasoningCRuns well85.2 tok/s2685 ms27K

Quantization options

How DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B (14B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A30 24GB (24.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
5.5 GB
LowD34
Q3_K_S
3
6.9 GB
LowD35
NVFP4
4
7.8 GB
MediumD36
Q4_K_M
4
8.5 GB
MediumD37
Q5_K_M
5
10.1 GB
HighD38
Q6_K
6
11.5 GB
HighD39
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
15.0 GB
Very HighC42
F16
16
28.7 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run deepseek-r1-distill-14b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download deepseek-r1-distill-14b
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