What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit requires approximately 6 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 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit is developed by hxac, 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 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit by hxac — VRAM 6GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit
Author: hxac

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit is an open-source language model by hxac. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 6GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

4-bit 4bit Awq Conversational Endpoints compatible Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/hxac/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-AWQ-4bit

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B AWQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/hxac/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-AWQ-4bit
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	6 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	hxac
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq\|4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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