Can the RTX 5090 Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B?
Runs
Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B at Q4_K_M is a 9 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF), and the RTX 5090 has 32 GB of VRAM, leaving about 23 GB for the KV cache and runtime. Published runs put generation at a median of 89.1 tokens per second across 1 cited measurement. Fastest cited run: DatabaseMart.
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Published runs for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B on the RTX 5090
| Generation | Quant | Runtime | Context | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89.1 tok/s | q4_K_M | ollama | — | DatabaseMartlabelled "deepseek-r1:14b" | 2025-01-30 |
More about this pair
How much VRAM does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B need?
The Q4_K_M file is 9 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 10.5 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.
What is the fastest DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B can generate on the RTX 5090?
Generation reads every weight once per token, so the RTX 5090's 1792 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 9 GB file sets a ceiling near 199 tokens per second. Real runs land below it; SpecPicks rejects any published figure above it.
Check another pair
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B on other GPUs
- RTX 4060 — Offload
- RTX 3060 Ti — Offload
- RTX 3060 12GB — Runs, 29.4 tok/s median
- Intel Arc B580 — Runs
- RTX 4070 SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- Intel Arc A770 16GB — Runs, 13.4 tok/s median
- Radeon RX 9070 XT — Runs
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4080 — Runs
- RTX 5070 Ti — Runs
- RTX 5080 — Runs, 70 tok/s median
- RTX 3090 — Runs, 37.5 tok/s median
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX — Runs
- RTX 4090 — Runs, 59 tok/s median
- RTX A6000 48GB — Runs, 48.4 tok/s median
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB — Runs
Other models on the RTX 5090
- Llama 3.2 1B — Runs
- Llama 3.2 3B — Runs
- Mistral 7B — Runs
- Qwen2.5 7B — Runs
- Llama 3.1 8B — Runs, 150 tok/s median
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B — Runs
- Qwen3 8B — Runs, 186 tok/s median
- Gemma 2 9B — Runs
- Gemma 3 12B — Runs
- Qwen2.5 14B — Runs, 89.9 tok/s median
- Qwen3 14B — Runs, 124 tok/s median
- Phi-4 14B — Runs
- gpt-oss-20b — Runs
- Gemma 3 27B — Runs, 47.3 tok/s median
- Gemma 2 27B — Runs
- Qwen3 30B-A3B — Runs, 234 tok/s median
- Qwen3 32B — Runs, 59.7 tok/s median
- Qwen2.5 32B — Runs, 45.1 tok/s median
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B — Runs, 49.8 tok/s median
- Llama 3.1 70B — Offload
- Llama 3.3 70B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B — Offload
How the checks work
The fit is the Q4_K_M file size against the card's VRAM, with 1.5 GB kept for the runtime and an ~8K context. A published run counts only if the pair fits, the run is Q4-class, its source does not call it an estimate, it is under the bandwidth ceiling above, and it is not one figure pasted across many cards. The whole matrix is downloadable as a CSV under CC BY 4.0.
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