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Hardware guide · DeepSeek-R1-Distill

What hardware do you need to run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B?

DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B needs about 6.2 GB to run at Q4_K_M, so the lightest hardware that runs it is iPhone 17 Pro. 33 of 40 devices tested can run it.

Needs (Q4_K_M)
~6.2 GB
Devices that run it
33
Too small
7
Lightest that runs it
~8 GB
Recommended Q4_K_M
Apple M2 (16GB) Yes

Runs at Q4_K_M using ~6.2 GB of ~10.5 GB usable. You have room for Q8_0 for higher quality.

What kind of hardware runs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B

Of the 33 devices that run it, here is the split by hardware class.

9 discrete GPUs 13 Macs 2 laptops 9 phones

Hardware that runs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B

Ranked by usable memory, lightest first. Prices are approximate street prices for the device itself (a GPU is the card alone; a Mac is the whole machine). Tok/s is a bandwidth estimate; see methodology.

Compatible devices 33 total

Too small for DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B

Apple M1 (8GB) 8GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 16 iPhone 16 Pro Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) iPhone 17

See the full DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B memory breakdown, or compare it against other models.

Sources

Memory at Q4_K_M (6.2 GB = 4.68 GB weights + KV cache + overhead), validated 2026-08-03. See methodology.