DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 runs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B excellently at 85 tok/s at Q8_0. This is a strong pairing.
Model Size
7.62B
Device VRAM
16 GB
Bandwidth
960 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 5080.
| Quantization | Speed | TTFT | Fits in VRAM | Rating | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 85 tok/s | 75ms | ✓ Yes | Excellent | estimated |
Notes
Q8_0
Full Q8 7B reasoning. Excellent on 5080.
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.
View all DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B hardware options →About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 has 16 GB at 960 GB/s. Street price: $1,099.
See all models NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 can run →Source: Community benchmarks and estimated performance (2026-03-01)
Data last updated: 2026-03-15