What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8 requires approximately 9.1 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 FP8 and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8 is developed by liodon-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 FP8?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8 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 FP8 by liodon-ai — VRAM 9.1GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8
Author: liodon-ai

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8 is an open-source language model by liodon-ai. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 9.1GB, Context: 128K, License: other.

Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:quantized:deepseek-... Compressed-tensors Conversational Endpoints compatible Fp8 Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/liodon-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-FP8

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/liodon-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-FP8
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	9.1 GB
Updated	2026-10-17
Maintainer	liodon-ai
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.1 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.14.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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