DeepSeek R1 1.5B

by DeepSeek · deepseek-r1 family

1.5B

parameters

text-generation reasoning math

DeepSeek R1 1.5B is a distilled reasoning model based on Qwen 2.5, bringing chain-of-thought reasoning to ultra-lightweight hardware. Despite its tiny size, it shows the characteristic "thinking" behavior of the R1 family on math and logic tasks. At under 3 GB VRAM for Q8, it runs on virtually any hardware — great for edge devices, experimenting with reasoning models, or as a fast local assistant.

Quick Start with Ollama

ollama run 1.5b-q8_0
Resources Ollama Hugging Face Official Page
Creator DeepSeek
Parameters 1.5B
Architecture transformer-decoder
Context 128K tokens
Released Jan 20, 2025
License MIT
Ollama deepseek-r1:1.5b

Quantization Options

Format File Size VRAM Required Quality Ollama Tag
Q4_K_M 1.1 GB 2 GB
1.5b-q4_K_M
Q8_0 rec 1.9 GB 3 GB
1.5b-q8_0
F16 3.5 GB 5 GB
1.5b-fp16

Compatible Hardware

for Q8_0 (3 GB VRAM)

Compatible Hardware

Hardware VRAM Type Fit Est. Speed
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 512GB 512 GB mac Runs ~273 tok/s
Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB 192 GB mac Runs ~267 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Ultra 192GB 192 GB mac Runs ~273 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB 128 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 128 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Max 96GB 96 GB mac Runs ~133 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~91 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 64 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~91 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Max 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~133 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 48 GB mac Runs ~91 tok/s
Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB 36 GB mac Runs ~182 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Pro 36GB 36 GB mac Runs ~50 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB gpu Runs ~597 tok/s
iMac M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
Mac mini M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 32GB 32 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB gpu Runs ~320 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB gpu Runs ~312 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB gpu Runs ~336 tok/s
iMac M3 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s
Mac mini M2 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s
Mac mini M4 Pro 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~91 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 24 GB mac Runs ~91 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB gpu Runs ~267 tok/s
MacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GB 18 GB mac Runs ~50 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB gpu Runs ~171 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB gpu Runs ~208 tok/s
Intel Arc A770 16 GB gpu Runs ~187 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB gpu Runs ~96 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB gpu Runs ~224 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16 GB gpu Runs ~245 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB gpu Runs ~239 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB gpu Runs ~299 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB gpu Runs ~320 tok/s
iMac M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~23 tok/s
iMac M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
Mac mini M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~23 tok/s
Mac mini M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s
MacBook Air M3 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s
MacBook Air M4 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~40 tok/s
MacBook Pro M1 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~23 tok/s
MacBook Pro M2 Pro 16GB 16 GB mac Runs ~67 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB gpu Runs ~144 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB gpu Runs ~120 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB 12 GB gpu Runs ~304 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12 GB gpu Runs ~168 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB gpu Runs ~168 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB gpu Runs ~168 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB gpu Runs ~224 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB gpu Runs ~205 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 10 GB gpu Runs ~253 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB gpu Runs ~96 tok/s
Intel Arc A750 8 GB gpu Runs ~171 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB gpu Runs ~149 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB gpu Runs ~149 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 8 GB gpu Runs ~96 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB gpu Runs ~91 tok/s
MacBook Air M1 8GB 8 GB mac Runs ~23 tok/s
MacBook Air M2 8GB 8 GB mac Runs ~33 tok/s

Benchmark Scores

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