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Voltarum Local LLM Hardware Guide

Hardware to run DeepSeek R1 (0528)

The full 671B reasoning model. At 4-bit only a 512 GB Mac Studio holds it in one box.

Developer
DeepSeek
Parameters
671B (active 37B)
Max context
160K tokens
Licence
MIT

Model card on Hugging FaceGGUF filesOllama: ollama run deepseek-r1:671b

Memory needed

Factual data

Weights plus context cache plus about 1.5 GB of runtime buffers, by quantisation and context length.

Quantisation8K tokens32K tokens128K tokens
Q4_K_M407 GB409 GB416 GB
Q8_0715 GB717 GB724 GB
FP161,344 GB1,346 GB1,353 GB

Hardware that runs it

Estimate

0 platforms can run DeepSeek R1 (0528) at Q4_K_M with a 32K-token context. Needs about 409 GB.

Nothing in our catalogue runs it with these settings.

Model weightsContext cache (KV)RuntimeUsable limit (colour = verdict)

Partly in system RAMOnly with part of the model in system RAM (20)

PlatformSmallest configurationMemorySpeed ceilingPrice from
RTX PRO 600096 GB
409 GB / 96 GB
—$8,565
RTX PRO 500048 GB
409 GB / 48 GB
—$4,500
Radeon AI PRO R970032 GB
409 GB / 32 GB
—$1,550
Arc Pro B7032 GB
409 GB / 32 GB
—$1,268
RTX 509032 GB
409 GB / 32 GB
—$4,329
RTX PRO 450032 GB
409 GB / 32 GB
—$2,500
RX 7900 XTX24 GB
409 GB / 24 GB
—$1,358
Arc Pro B6024 GB
409 GB / 24 GB
—$599
RTX 309024 GB
409 GB / 24 GB
—$1,340
RTX 409024 GB
409 GB / 24 GB
—$1,599
RTX PRO 400024 GB
409 GB / 24 GB
—$1,500
RX 9060 XT 16 GB16 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$349
RX 9070 XT16 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$759
Arc Pro B5016 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$349
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB16 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$789
RTX 5070 Ti16 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$1,190
RTX 508016 GB
409 GB / 16 GB
—$1,830
Arc B58012 GB
409 GB / 12 GB
—$249
RTX 3060 12 GB12 GB
409 GB / 12 GB
—$329
RTX 507012 GB
409 GB / 12 GB
—$1,010

Not enough memoryNot enough memory (11)

PlatformSmallest configurationMemorySpeed ceilingPrice from
Mac Studio M5 Ultra512 GB
409 GB / 384 GB
—$5,499
Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495192 GB
409 GB / 159 GB
—$7,399
Ryzen AI Max+ 395128 GB
409 GB / 115 GB
—$2,200
Mac Studio M5 Max128 GB
409 GB / 96 GB
—$2,499
Jetson AGX Thor128 GB
409 GB / 115 GB
—$5,499
DGX Spark / GB10128 GB
409 GB / 115 GB
—$5,000
Ryzen AI 9 HX 37096 GB
409 GB / 82 GB
——
Mac mini M5 Pro64 GB
409 GB / 48 GB
—$1,699
Jetson AGX Orin 64GB64 GB
409 GB / 58 GB
—$1,999
Mac mini M632 GB
409 GB / 21 GB
—$899
Jetson Orin Nano Super8 GB
409 GB / 6 GB
—$399

Not supportedNot supported (2)

PlatformSmallest configurationMemorySpeed ceilingPrice from
RK3588 (Orange Pi 5 Plus and others)32 GB———
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 28 GB——$200

Theoretical maximum for generating text: memory bandwidth divided by the bytes read per token. Real runs usually reach about half to three quarters of it.