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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB runs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B excellently at 48 tok/s at Q5_K_M. This is a strong pairing.

Model Size

7.62B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q5_K_M48 tok/s130ms✓ YesExcellentestimated

Notes

Q5_K_M

Q5_K_M fits comfortably. Good bandwidth for reasoning workloads.

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 4070 Ti 12GB

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

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

Data last updated: 2026-03-15