What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ requires approximately 128.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1024K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ and how large is it?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ is developed by mlx-community, a model with 284.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ perform on standard benchmarks?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1436. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ by mlx-community — VRAM 128.9GB, 1024K context

Name: DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ
Author: mlx-community

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 284.3b LLM, VRAM: 128.9GB, Context: 1024K, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.41, ELO: 1436.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-3bit-DQ

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1436 vs 1272 (so35) 12.9%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-3bit-DQ
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Model Size	284.3b
Required VRAM	128.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-20
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	deepseek_v4
Model Files	4.6 GB: 1-of-27 5.0 GB: 2-of-27 4.9 GB: 3-of-27 5.0 GB: 4-of-27 5.0 GB: 5-of-27 4.8 GB: 6-of-27 5.0 GB: 7-of-27 5.0 GB: 8-of-27 4.9 GB: 9-of-27 5.0 GB: 10-of-27 5.0 GB: 11-of-27 4.8 GB: 12-of-27 5.0 GB: 13-of-27 5.0 GB: 14-of-27 4.9 GB: 15-of-27 5.0 GB: 16-of-27 5.0 GB: 17-of-27 4.8 GB: 18-of-27 5.0 GB: 19-of-27 5.0 GB: 20-of-27 4.9 GB: 21-of-27 5.0 GB: 22-of-27 5.0 GB: 23-of-27 4.8 GB: 24-of-27 5.0 GB: 25-of-27 4.9 GB: 26-of-27 0.6 GB: 27-of-27
Quantization Type	3bit
Model Architecture	DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	1048576
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	129280
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 4bit	1024K / 152.2 GB	12635	25
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-3bit-DQ.