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

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B requires approximately 16.4 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 and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B is developed by unsloth, 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?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B 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 by unsloth — VRAM 16.4GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
Author: unsloth

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:finetune:deepseek-a... Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.6 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|vision_pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B.