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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB cannot run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B at any quantization level. The 12 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

32.5B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 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 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q2_K✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q2_K

Requires 24GB+ for viable quality.

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 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has 12 GB at 504 GB/s. Street price: $749.

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Source: 32.76B model exceeds 12GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15