DeepSeek · First MLX build 29 May 2025
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
MLX
Text mit
A 8.2B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 8.2B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 8 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 4.6 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 3.3K This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 5 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 8 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
5 on mlx-community| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-4bit | 4-bit | 4.6 GB | 8 GB | 3.3K |
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| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-4bit-DWQ | 4-bit DWQ | 4.6 GB | 8 GB | 142 |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-6bit | 6-bit | 6.7 GB | 10 GB | 97 |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-8bit | 8-bit | 8.7 GB | 12 GB | 136 |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-bf16 | bf16 | 16.4 GB | 21 GB | 88 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.