can it run
No. 16GB of memory can't hold the 54GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.
| model file | 43GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 54GB working set |
| this machine | 16GB unified (config to 32GB) |
| params | distill 70B |
| license | mit |
| price | $899 |
easy run: ollama pull deepseek-r1:70b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
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