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Can the Radeon 740M run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 8B?

FULL

5.4 GB needed of 13.5 GB usable — headroom for context

~13.5GB usable · RDNA3 (iGPU) · model file 4.9GB · distill 8B

~6.1–20 tok/s

computed roofline: 120 GB/s × 0.25–0.80 efficiency window / 4.9GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 8B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 8B fully ($135)

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