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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.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q2_K✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

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.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB has 8 GB at 272 GB/s. Street price: $289.

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Source: 32.76B model exceeds 8GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15