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.
| Quantization | Speed | TTFT | Fits in VRAM | Rating | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | — | — | ✗ Offload | Not Viable | estimated |
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.
View all DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B hardware options →About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has 12 GB at 504 GB/s. Street price: $749.
See all models NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB can run →Source: 32.76B model exceeds 12GB (2026-03-15)
Data last updated: 2026-03-15