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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB handles DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B well at 32 tok/s at Q4_K_M. A solid choice for this model.

Model Size

7.62B

Device VRAM

8 GB

Bandwidth

272 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

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Performance by Quantization

Each row shows DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q4_K_M32 tok/s220ms✓ YesGoodestimated

Notes

Q4_K_M

7.62B reasoning distillate. Q4_K_M fits with ~3GB headroom. 272 GB/s limits speed.

About DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B (7.62B) is a reasoning, chat model. Compact distilled reasoning model for chat and inference.

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

Data last updated: 2026-03-15