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Can the NVIDIA RTX A4500 run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B?

TIGHT

21.0 of 20 GB usable — barely over; real with q8 KV cache (halves KV) or shorter context

20GB · Ampere · model file 20GB · distill 32B

~15–24 tok/s

computed roofline: 640 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 20.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B on instead

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B fully ($999)

rtx-a5000 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX A4500

every model the NVIDIA RTX A4500 can run — full list

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