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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell × DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1631.8 GB of 96 GB
Weights 29.6 GBKV cache 1.6 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~36tokens per second
Max context128Kthe model's full window
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 31.8 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 36 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B:

ollama run deepseek-r1:14b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 11.2 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 96 GB the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality31.8 GBFits~36 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless17.9 GBFits~68 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent14.3 GBFits~89 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good12.7 GBFits~102 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular11.2 GBFits~120 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded9.4 GBFits~149 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded7.8 GBFits~194 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, next to our estimate.

No one has measured DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell? Add your real speed

One command times DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- deepseek-r1:14b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="deepseek-r1:14b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B comfortably

Models that run well on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 31.8 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 36 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B need?

About 11.2 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 31.8 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

Roughly 36 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth.