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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB cannot run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B at any quantization level. The 10 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

32.5B

Device VRAM

10 GB

Bandwidth

760 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q2_K✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q2_K

32B doesn't fit in 10GB.

About DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B (32.5B) is a reasoning, coding, chat model. Distilled reasoning model with strong coding and chat capabilities.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB has 10 GB at 760 GB/s. Street price: $399.

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Source: Performance estimates based on model size and device bandwidth (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15