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Can the NVIDIA RTX A4500 run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 8B?

FULL

5.4 GB needed of 20 GB usable — headroom for context

20GB · Ampere · model file 4.9GB · distill 8B

~60–99 tok/s

computed roofline: 640 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 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)

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

every model the NVIDIA RTX A4500 can run — full list

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