Does DeepSeek-V3.2 fit in 8GB of VRAM?
Not at these settings. No indexed quantization of DeepSeek-V3.2 fits 8GB card at any context we compute, with q4_0 KV. The smallest shipped quantization is 138.82 GiB in weights alone, against 7.44 GiB usable. CPU offload can still run it, slowly.
Every quantization at every context
| Quant | Weights● | 4K◐ | 8K◐ | 16K◐ | 32K◐ | 64K◐ | 128K◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 1250.09 GiB | 1251.0 | 1251.1 | 1251.3 | 1251.6 | 1252.2 | 1253.4 |
| Q8_0 | 664.30 GiB | 665.3 | 665.3 | 665.5 | 665.8 | 666.4 | 667.6 |
| Q6_K | 513.45 GiB | 514.4 | 514.5 | 514.6 | 514.9 | 515.5 | 516.7 |
| Q5_K_M | 443.46 GiB | 444.4 | 444.5 | 444.6 | 444.9 | 445.5 | 446.8 |
| Q5_K_S | 430.86 GiB | 431.8 | 431.9 | 432.0 | 432.3 | 432.9 | 434.2 |
| Q4_1 | 391.87 GiB | 392.8 | 392.9 | 393.1 | 393.4 | 394.0 | 395.2 |
| Q4_K_M | 377.56 GiB | 378.5 | 378.6 | 378.7 | 379.0 | 379.6 | 380.8 |
| Q4_K_S | 354.89 GiB | 355.8 | 355.9 | 356.1 | 356.4 | 357.0 | 358.2 |
| Q4_0 | 353.99 GiB | 354.9 | 355.0 | 355.2 | 355.5 | 356.1 | 357.3 |
| IQ4_NL | 353.10 GiB | 354.1 | 354.1 | 354.3 | 354.6 | 355.2 | 356.4 |
| IQ4_XS | 333.74 GiB | 334.7 | 334.8 | 334.9 | 335.2 | 335.8 | 337.0 |
| Q3_K_M | 298.24 GiB | 299.2 | 299.3 | 299.4 | 299.7 | 300.3 | 301.5 |
| Q3_K_S | 270.50 GiB | 271.5 | 271.5 | 271.7 | 272.0 | 272.6 | 273.8 |
| UD-IQ3_XXS | 254.37 GiB | 255.3 | 255.4 | 255.6 | 255.9 | 256.5 | 257.7 |
| Q2_K_L | 228.72 GiB | 229.7 | 229.7 | 229.9 | 230.2 | 230.8 | 232.0 |
| Q2_K | 228.51 GiB | 229.5 | 229.5 | 229.7 | 230.0 | 230.6 | 231.8 |
| UD-IQ2_M | 212.44 GiB | 213.4 | 213.5 | 213.6 | 213.9 | 214.5 | 215.7 |
| UD-IQ2_XXS | 202.22 GiB | 203.2 | 203.2 | 203.4 | 203.7 | 204.3 | 205.5 |
| UD-IQ1_M | 185.62 GiB | 186.6 | 186.7 | 186.8 | 187.1 | 187.7 | 188.9 |
| UD-IQ1_S | 171.48 GiB | 172.4 | 172.5 | 172.7 | 173.0 | 173.6 | 174.8 |
| IQ2_XXS | 162.59 GiB | 163.5 | 163.6 | 163.8 | 164.1 | 164.7 | 165.9 |
| UD-TQ1_0 | 150.20 GiB | 151.2 | 151.2 | 151.4 | 151.7 | 152.3 | 153.5 |
| IQ1_M | 138.82 GiB | 139.8 | 139.9 | 140.0 | 140.3 | 140.9 | 142.1 |
Figures are GiB of total memory: weights plus KV cache plus compute buffer and backend overhead. Weights and KV are near-exact; the overhead term is modeled. Hover any cell for the breakdown.
Why there are no speeds on this page
A capacity is not a card. Whether a model fits depends only on memory, so every figure above holds for any 8GB accelerator. How fast it runs depends on memory bandwidth, which varies several-fold between cards of the same capacity — so putting a tokens-per-second number here would be inventing one. Pick a specific card from hardware and the speed column appears.
Why other calculators disagree
A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate ignores two things that dominate at long context. First, the weights themselves are not the nominal rate — quantizations are mixtures, so the real file is consistently larger than the label implies. Second, this model uses latent attention and allocates no V cache at all, so any formula reading num_key_value_heads overstates its cache by more than an order of magnitude.