What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF requires approximately 1.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF is developed by DheyoAI, a model with 1.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF by DheyoAI — VRAM 1.7GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF
Author: DheyoAI

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF is an open-source language model by DheyoAI. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:quantized:deepseek-... Conversational Dataset:openai/gsm8k En Endpoints compatible Gguf Quantized Qwen2 Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/DheyoAI/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/DheyoAI/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF
Base Model(s)	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-12
Maintainer	DheyoAI
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.8 GB 1.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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