DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB cannot run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B at any quantization level. The 8 GB of VRAM is insufficient.
Model Size
32.5B
Device VRAM
8 GB
Bandwidth
272 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 4060 8GB.
| Quantization | Speed | TTFT | Fits in VRAM | Rating | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | — | — | ✗ Offload | Not Viable | estimated |
Notes
Q2_K
32B class. Not viable on 8GB.
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.
View all DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B hardware options →About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB has 8 GB at 272 GB/s. Street price: $289.
See all models NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB can run →Source: 32.76B model exceeds 8GB (2026-03-15)
Data last updated: 2026-03-15