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DeepSeek R1 VRAM Requirements & GPU Sizing

Calculated GPU VRAM memory requirements across quantization precisions (Q4, FP8, FP16) and recommended NVIDIA hardware configurations.

Q4 Quant (4-bit)

380 GB

FP8 Standard (8-bit)

680 GB

FP16 Master (16-bit)

1.3 TB

8× H100 (80GB) SXM5 or RunPod Multi-Node