What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF requires approximately 15.9 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 70B GGUF and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF is developed by unsloth, a model with 70b 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 70B GGUF?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF 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 70B GGUF by unsloth — VRAM 15.9GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF
Author: unsloth

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 15.9GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.3, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:quantized:deepseek-... Conversational Deepseek En Endpoints compatible Gguf Imatrix Llama Llama-3 Meta Q2 Quantized Region:us Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-GGUF

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-GGUF
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	15.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Model Files	40.1 GB 37.9 GB 26.4 GB 26.6 GB 34.3 GB 30.9 GB 40.1 GB 44.3 GB 42.5 GB 40.3 GB 49.9 GB 48.7 GB 17.2 GB 15.9 GB 24.4 GB 19.4 GB 27.7 GB 27.0 GB 34.9 GB 42.7 GB 50.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.3
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.0.dev0
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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