estimate
Can I run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on an RTX 3090?
No: needs ~445.5 GB, this card has ~23.4 GB usable (estimate)
speed: not estimated for MoE yet
KV cache not modelled for this architecture: real use needs more than the figures shown
MLX: Apple Silicon only
Mainline llama.cpp does not support DeepSeek V4.1 yet (open PR https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/28696, checked 17 Oct 2026); the community GGUFs need that branch and are text-only. Ollama offers deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud only (no local tag, https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-v4.1-flash). Official weights: FP8 with FP4 experts, 510.3 GB on HF. Language backbone stored as 551.9B; the architecture section says "552B backbone parameters" (1017 is a minor update of https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash). Weights for this row: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Also 196.6B Engram conditional-memory parameters (sparse token lookup), 14.2B MTP head and 0.49B vision encoder. Total logical weights 763.2B (HF safetensors metadata). Causal encoder-decoder, 40 layers (20 encoder + 20 decoder), 384 routed experts plus 1 shared, 6 routed per token, CSA2 compressed attention. KV is projected from encoder states with compressed and sliding attention (persistent KV about 1/8 of V4-Flash); this catalog does not compute that cache.
Can I run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on an RTX 3090? No: needs ~445.5 GB, this card has ~23.4 GB usable (estimate). About 445.5 GB at Q4_K_M (estimate).
VRAM per quant for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Updated . The later of the hardware price date and the formula date.
| Quant | Context | Weights | KV | Overhead | Total | Usable | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 Q4_K_M | 8,192 tokens | 444.7 GB measured GGUF file size | 0.0 GB not modelled | 0.8 GB estimate | 445.5 GB estimate | 23.4 GB estimate | no |
| Q5 Q5 (~0.71 bytes/param) | 8,192 tokens | 391.8 GB estimate | 0.0 GB not modelled | 0.8 GB estimate | 392.6 GB estimate | 23.4 GB estimate | no |
| Q8 Q8 | 8,192 tokens | 590.5 GB estimate | 0.0 GB not modelled | 0.8 GB estimate | 591.3 GB estimate | 23.4 GB estimate | no |
| FP16 FP16 | 8,192 tokens | 1,103.8 GB estimate | 0.0 GB not modelled | 0.8 GB estimate | 1,104.6 GB estimate | 23.4 GB estimate | no |
| Q4, longer context | 32,768 tokens | 444.7 GB measured GGUF file size | 0.0 GB not modelled | 0.8 GB estimate | 445.5 GB estimate | 23.4 GB estimate | no |
Formula estimate, not a benchmark. Method →
Cheapest catalog option that fits at Q4
No catalog row fully fits at Q4 (estimate).
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Questions
- Can I run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on an RTX 3090?
- No: needs ~445.5 GB, this card has ~23.4 GB usable (estimate).
- How much memory does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 need at Q4?
- About 445.5 GB at 8,192 tokens (estimate): 444.7 GB weights (measured GGUF file size), 0.0 GB KV cache (not modelled; real use needs more), 0.8 GB overhead.
- How fast is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on RTX 3090 (estimate)?
- speed: not estimated for MoE yet
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