What GPU do I need to run deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-base?
6.7B parameters, published in BF16. View on Hugging Face
Set up deepseek-coder-6.7b-basedeepseek-coder-6.7b-base is published by deepseek-ai on Hugging Face, with 69,623 downloads and 126 likes to date. It's a LlamaForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in BF16.
VRAM required & cheapest live GPU fit
Required VRAM = weight size at each precision, plus a fixed overhead for KV-cache, activations, and fragmentation. Full formula and assumptions: methodology.
| Precision | Weight size | Required VRAM | Cheapest live fit | GPUs needed | Est. $/hr (full fit) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 12.6 GB | 15.1 GB | RTX A4000 | 1 | $0.167/hr |
| FP8 (quantized) | 6.3 GB | 7.5 GB | RTX 4070 Super | 1 | $0.121/hr |
| INT4 (quantized) | 3.1 GB | 3.8 GB | RTX 3060 | 1 | $0.110/hr |
A GPU is only matched to a row if its hardware supports that precision, and the primary recommendation is always a single-GPU fit when one exists.
INT4 requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.
Cheapest way to run deepseek-coder-6.7b-base at its published (BF16) precision: 1× RTX A4000, at $0.167/hr per GPU ($0.167/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.
deepseek-coder-6.7b-base: common questions
Does deepseek-coder-6.7b-base fit on a 16 GB GPU?
Yes. At BF16 it needs 15.1 GB of VRAM, so a 16 GB card holds it with 0.9 GB to spare. A 12 GB card is not enough for it at BF16.
What is the least VRAM deepseek-coder-6.7b-base can run in?
3.8 GB, at INT4 (quantized), which fits a 6 GB card, against 15.1 GB at BF16. That row assumes an INT4 checkpoint has actually been published for this model, so check its Hugging Face page before planning around it.
Does quantizing deepseek-coder-6.7b-base lower the GPU bill?
Yes. At BF16 the cheapest live fit is one RTX A4000 at $0.167/hr. At INT4 (quantized) it drops to one RTX 3060 at $0.110/hr, provided a quantized checkpoint exists for it.
Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.
More deepseek-ai models
- DeepSeek-OCR (3.3B, BF16)
- DeepSeek-R1 (684.5B, F8_E4M3)
- DeepSeek-V3.2 (685.4B, F8_E4M3)
- DeepSeek-V3-0324 (684.5B, F8_E4M3)
- DeepSeek-V3 (684.5B, F8_E4M3)
- DeepSeek-OCR-2 (3.4B, BF16)
Related reading: RTX A4000 pricing and specs, The NVIDIA Inception program, explained, Google Colab alternatives for dedicated GPU access, Free GPU credits for students and researchers, and RunPod volume disk vs. network volume, compared.
