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Can the Surface Laptop Ultra (24GB) run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 70B?

NO

No. 24GB of memory can't hold the 54GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~1.6–4.1 tok/s

weights 43GB + KV cache 1.25GB at 4k context vs ~22GB usable → no. 44.2 GB vs 22 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 273 GB/s × 0.25–0.65 efficiency window / 43.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file43GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory54GB working set
this machine24GB unified LPDDR5X (18-core CPU / 5,120-core GPU base config)
paramsdistill 70B
licensemit
price$2599.99

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull deepseek-r1:70b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

→ NIMO AI Mini PC (128GB) — cheapest machine that runs it ($1999)

→ rtx-5090 — the next step up from this machine's GPU

Buy

Microsoft (direct) ↗

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