NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe 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.
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe can run deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B with Q4 quantization. At approximately 232 tokens/second, you can expect Excellent speed - conversational response times under 1 second.
You have 37GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 3GB | 40GB | 231.58 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 5GB | 40GB | 160.86 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 11GB | 40GB | 88.43 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |