AMD Instinct MI300X meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
AMD Instinct MI300X can run deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B with Q4 quantization. At approximately 807 tokens/second, you can expect Excellent speed - conversational response times under 1 second.
You have 189GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 3GB | 192GB | 807.46 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 5GB | 192GB | 555.91 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 11GB | 192GB | 272.03 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |