How fast will DeepSeek V4.1 Flash feel on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a 748.49B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (16B active per token). At Q2_K it needs about 265.3 GB of memory. The CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) has 89 GB usable, so it doesn't fit, even at its smallest quantization.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q2_K264.5 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q3_K_M347.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q4_K_M444.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
MXFP4507.9 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on other hardware

Other models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

All models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 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.