Best hardware to run DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8B
The minimum self-hostable option and a comfortable recommended build for DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8B, plus the top devices that run it well.
Minimum
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBFits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~1.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Recommended
Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServerFits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~546.2GB headroom — about 33 concurrent instances.
Top devices that run it well
- Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServerSupermicro · AI Servers
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~546.2GB headroom — about 33 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - Dell PowerEdge XE9680Dell · AI Servers
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~546.2GB headroom — about 33 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - AMD Instinct MI300XAMD · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~152GB headroom — about 9 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - NVIDIA H200 (141GB)NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~107.1GB headroom — about 7 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - Cloud H200 141GB (profile)Cloud · Cloud GPU Profiles
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~107.1GB headroom — about 7 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - NVIDIA H100 (80GB)NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~53.4GB headroom — about 4 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well
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