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Can I run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)?

Compatibility verdict VRAM threshold engine
Yes, it runs GPU accelerated ~133 tok/s est.

Yes. DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B runs on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) at Q4_K_M (~6.2 GB of ~23 GB usable).

Needs ~6.2 GB Device usable ~23 GB

Runs at Q4_K_M using ~6.2 GB of ~23 GB usable. You have room for FP16 for higher quality.

That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) leaves ~16.8 GB of headroom, room to step up to FP16 for higher quality.

Q4_K_M needed
~6.2 GB
Usable on device
~23 GB
Device memory
24 GB
Best quant
Q4_K_M
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Which quant fits

Quant ladder vs ~23 GB usable
Q2_K
~4.9 GB
Q3_K_M
~5.5 GB
Q4_K_M
~6.2 GB
Q5_K_M
~7.3 GB
Q6_K
~8.2 GB
Q8_0
~9.6 GB
FP16
~17.9 GB
The line marks AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)'s ~23 GB budget; rungs past it are too large.

Running cost · estimate

Power & economics est.
Power draw
~355 W
Electricity / 1M tokens
~$0.11
Pays for itself after
~2,562M tok

At ~$0.15/kWh and the estimated ~133 tok/s, a million generated tokens costs about $0.11 in electricity. Versus a hosted API at ~$0.5 per million tokens, the ~$999 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) pays for itself after roughly 2,562 million tokens, so local hardware is mostly a fixed cost, not a per-token one. TDP is the peak draw, so this is an upper bound. Assumptions.

Run it

Install commands Windows

Pick your tool. All 3 load the same Q4_K_M weights.

Ollama
$ ollama run deepseek-r1:8b-0528-qwen3-q4_K_M
llama.cpp
$ llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
LM Studio
$ lms get unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF
Model DeepSeek-R1-Distill
Parameters
8.19B
Q4_K_M size
4.68 GB
Q8_0 size
8.11 GB
Context
128k
Ollama tag
deepseek-r1:8b-0528-qwen3-q4_K_M
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Device Windows
Memory
24 GB vram
Usable for weights
~23 GB
Power draw
~355 W
Best runtime
Ollama (ROCm) / llama.cpp ROCm (Linux)
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FAQ

Can AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B?

Yes. DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B runs on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) at Q4_K_M (~6.2 GB of ~23 GB usable).

How much memory does DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B need?

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) has room to spare. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~4.68 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~6.2 GB at a 4k context.

What is the best tool to run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B on Windows?

LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.

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Sources

Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.