DeepSeek-R1: What PC You Need
DeepSeek-R1 needs about 469.8GB at Q4. No PC we track with a verified price runs it comfortably.
What DeepSeek-R1 asks of a PC
DeepSeek-R1 is a mixture-of-experts model with 671B parameters, 37B of them active per token. Every expert has to stay resident, so its memory need follows the 671B figure, not the 37B one.
At 8K context DeepSeek-R1 takes 469.8GB at Q4, 638.6GB at Q6 and 821.9GB at Q8. Stepping from Q4 to Q8 costs 352.1GB.
DeepSeek-R1 accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context, and a long context adds memory: at 128K and Q4 it takes 499.8GB.
0 tracked PCs with a verified price run DeepSeek-R1 comfortably and 0 run it with limits.
Memory requirements for DeepSeek-R1
| Quantization | 8K context | 32K context | 128K context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 469.8GB | 475.8GB | 499.8GB |
| Q5 | 551.8GB | 557.8GB | 581.8GB |
| Q6 | 638.6GB | 644.6GB | 668.6GB |
| Q8 | 821.9GB | 827.9GB | 851.9GB |
- Parameters
- 671B
- Active per token
- 37B
- Context window
- 128,000
- Source
- Model card
Cheapest PCs that run DeepSeek-R1 comfortably
None we track with a verified price.
Cheapest PCs that run DeepSeek-R1 with limitations
None we track with a verified price.