Can the Radeon RX 9070 XT Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B at Q6_K?
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Not entirely. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B at Q6_K is a 26.9 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF), about 10.9 GB more than the Radeon RX 9070 XT's 16 GB, so the remainder has to be offloaded to system RAM. Generation speed is then set by system-memory and PCIe bandwidth rather than by the GPU, so no tokens-per-second figure is quoted for this pair. The smallest card in this matrix that holds it entirely is the RTX 5090 (32 GB).
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Published runs for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B on the Radeon RX 9070 XT
No published run for this pair has passed the checks yet.
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How much VRAM does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B need?
The Q6_K file is 26.9 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 28.4 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.
What speed does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B reach on the Radeon RX 9070 XT?
No published run of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B on the Radeon RX 9070 XT has been cited yet. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the Radeon RX 9070 XT's 645 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 26.89 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 24 tokens per second once the whole model is resident. That is an upper bound, not a speed estimate: kernel, launch and compute overhead keep real runs below it.
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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B on other GPUs
- RTX 4060 — Offload
- RTX 3060 Ti — Offload
- RTX 3060 12GB — Offload
- Intel Arc B580 — Offload
- RTX 4070 SUPER — Offload
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — Offload
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — Offload
- Intel Arc A770 16GB — Offload
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — Offload
- RTX 4080 — Offload
- RTX 5070 Ti — Offload
- RTX 5080 — Offload
- RTX 3090 — Offload
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX — Offload
- RTX 4090 — Offload
- RTX 5090 — Runs
- RTX A6000 48GB — Runs
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB — Runs
Other models on the Radeon RX 9070 XT
- Llama 3.2 1B — Runs
- Llama 3.2 3B — Runs
- Mistral 7B — Runs
- Qwen2.5 7B — Runs
- Llama 3.1 8B — Runs
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B — Runs
- Qwen3 8B — Runs, 90 tok/s median
- Gemma 2 9B — Runs
- Gemma 3 12B — Runs
- Qwen2.5 14B — Runs
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B — Runs
- Qwen3 14B — Runs, 50.1 tok/s median
- Phi-4 14B — Runs
- gpt-oss-20b — Runs, 91.9 tok/s (1 run)
- Gemma 3 27B — Offload
- Gemma 2 27B — Offload
- Qwen3 30B-A3B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B — Offload
- Gemma 3 27B — Offload
- Llama 3.1 70B — Offload
- Llama 3.3 70B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B — Offload
How the checks work
The fit is the Q6_K 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 (memory bandwidth ÷ GB read per token: the whole file for a dense model, only the active experts' weights for a mixture-of-experts model such as gpt-oss-20b or Qwen3 30B-A3B, which is why those can post figures above bandwidth ÷ file size), it is not slower than the same card on a model twice its size, a single run is not slower than the same card on a larger dense model, 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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