What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 Llama 8B and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 8b 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 Llama 8B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B by deepseek-ai — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Conversational Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	llama
Model Files	8.7 GB: 1-of-2 7.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Beginning of Sentence Token	<｜begin▁of▁sentence｜>
End of Sentence Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...pSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B GGUF	306	32729	2 GB
...till Llama 8B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	36	22007	6 GB
DAN L3 R1 8B	47	2666	16 GB
...k R1 Distill Llama 8B Bnb 4bit	3	987	5 GB
...pSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B 8bit	5	127	8 GB
Maestro R1 Llama 8B	4	24	16 GB

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