AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX × DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Can the RX 7900 XTX run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B?
Yes
Yes. The RX 7900 XTX can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B at up to Q4_K_M (needs ~22.4 GB at 4K context of 22.8 GB usable), at an estimated ~35.4 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth (no measured benchmark for this device). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 19.4 GB | ✅ | ~44.1 |
| Q4_K_M | 23.4 GB | ✅ at 4K ctx | ~35.4 |
| Q5_K_M | 27.0 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q6_K | 30.8 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q8_0 | 38.8 GB | ❌ | — |
| F16 | 70.5 GB | ❌ | — |
Fastest hardware for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~55.7 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~35.8 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti — ~32.9 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — ~30.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) — ~23.1 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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