What GPU do I need to run RedHatAI/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-FP8-dynamic?

32.8B parameters, published in F8_E4M3. View on Hugging Face

32.8B
Parameters
F8_E4M3
Native precision
Qwen2ForCausalLM
Architecture
text-generation
Pipeline

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-FP8-dynamic is published by RedHatAI on Hugging Face, with 72,668 downloads and 10 likes to date. It's a Qwen2ForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in F8_E4M3.

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)
FP8 (native)
30.5 GB
36.6 GB
L40 (massecompute)
1
$0.772/hr
cheaper alt.
RTX 5060 Ti (simplepod)
3
$0.300/hr
INT4 (quantized)
15.3 GB
18.3 GB
RTX 3090 (simplepod)
1
$0.160/hr
cheaper alt.
RTX 3080 (simplepod)
2
$0.140/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 caveat: requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.

Cheapest way to run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-FP8-dynamic at its published (F8_E4M3) precision: 1× L40 on massecompute, at $0.772/hr per GPU ($0.772/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.

Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.

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