DeepSeek · First MLX build 20 Jan 2025
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
MLX
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A 8B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 8 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 8B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 8 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 4.5 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 830 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 8 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 · Hugging Face CLI$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bitMLX builds
8 on mlx-community| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-3bit | 3-bit | 3.5 GB | 6 GB | 54 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bit | 4-bit | 4.5 GB | 8 GB | 830 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bit-mlx | 4-bit | 4.5 GB | 8 GB | 71 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-6bit | 6-bit | 6.5 GB | 10 GB | 63 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-8bit | 8-bit | 8.5 GB | 12 GB | 142 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-8bit-mlx | 8-bit | 8.5 GB | 12 GB | 53 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B | Unstated | 16.1 GB | 20 GB | 275 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-bf16 | bf16 | 16.1 GB | 20 GB | 67 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.