Running DeepSeek R1 Distilled Models on Consumer Hardware

Guide to running DeepSeek R1 distilled variants (1.5B, 7B, 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B) on consumer GPUs and CPUs using Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM with quantization strategies.

This guide covers running DeepSeek R1 distilled models locally. Topics include choosing the right model size for your hardware, GGUF quantization levels (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q8_0), GPU memory requirements, CPU inference with llama.cpp, Ollama one-command setup, vLLM for production serving, and performance benchmarks across different hardware configurations.