How fast will DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B feel on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB?

DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB

DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B is a 14.77B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 9.7 GB of memory. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 45 tokens/sec (27–63), with the first token after 0.4 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M9.0 GBFits45 tok/s0.4 sDerived
Q8_015.7 GBFits26 tok/s0.4 sDerived
FP1629.6 GBPartial offload14 tok/s1.3 sProjected

DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B on other hardware

Other models on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB

All models on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB · DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.