LLMs ·

DeepSeek R1 0528 (671B)

Parameters
685B (37.0B active)
Architecture
Mixture of experts
Max context
160K tokens
License
mit
Released
2025-05

How to run it

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

ollama run deepseek-r1:671b

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from DeepSeek, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from DeepSeek. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

The R1 repo covers the distilled models too.

Memory needed

Weights plus KV cache and runtime overhead. Leave a little extra free for the operating system and other apps.

KV cache: latent (MLA) KV cache.

Quantization Quality Weights Total at 8K context Total at 32K context Download
Q2_K Low 274 GB 275 GB 277 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M Low 335 GB 337 GB 338 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M Good 418 GB 419 GB 420 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M High 486 GB 487 GB 489 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K High 561 GB 562 GB 564 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 Very high 726 GB 727 GB 729 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
F16 Full 1,369 GB 1,370 GB 1,372 GB GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Best hardware for DeepSeek R1 0528 (671B)

Grade · points Hardware Quant Memory Speed Fit
83 ptsGreat (A) · 83 of 100 points: Model quality 35.2/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 9.2/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) Q3_K_M 367 GB / 384 GB 15.1 tok/s Tight fit

Check it on your own hardware

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.