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can it run

Can the Tesla M60 (16GB, used) run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B?

NO

No. 16GB of memory can't hold the 25GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~2.2–4 tok/s

weights 20GB + KV cache 1GB at 4k context vs ~16GB usable → no. 21.0 GB vs 16 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 160.4 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 20.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file20GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory25GB working set
this machine16GB GDDR5 (2×8 GB), 160 GB/s
paramsdistill 32B
licensemit
price$35

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull deepseek-r1:32b

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

Alternatives

Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) — cheapest machine that runs it ($1669)

every model the Tesla M60 (16GB, used) can run — full list

tesla-p100-16gb — the next step up from this machine's GPU

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