DeepSeek V4 Pro VRAM requirements

DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.60T parameters, of which about 49B are used per token; all 384 experts still have to be in memory. With an 8K-token context and one request it needs about 993 GB of GPU memory at Q4_K_M, 1,639 GB at FP8 and 3,277 GB at FP16/BF16. The published weights take 805 GB (4.3 bits/weight). No single GPU in the table holds it at Q4_K_M; it needs a multi-GPU setup.

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VRAM by quantization

Weights plus the KV cache for 8,192 tokens in FP16 and the runtime overhead (0.5 GB plus 10%). Each row opens the calculator with that setting. What the GGUF names mean.

PrecisionWeightsTotalSmallest setup
As published (4.3 bits/weight) 805 GB 887 GB 8 × H200
FP16 / BF16 2,978 GB 3,277 GB More than 8 GPUs
FP8 / INT8 1,489 GB 1,639 GB More than 8 GPUs
INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ) 791 GB 872 GB 8 × H200
GGUF Q8_0 1,582 GB 1,742 GB More than 8 GPUs
GGUF Q6_K 1,221 GB 1,345 GB 8 × B200
GGUF Q5_K_M 1,055 GB 1,162 GB 8 × B200
GGUF Q4_K_M 901 GB 993 GB 8 × H200
GGUF Q3_K_M 728 GB 802 GB 8 × H200
GGUF Q2_K 624 GB 687 GB 4 × B200

KV cache at long context

All 61 layers use full attention. Each extra token of context adds 122 KB of FP16 cache per request. This model shares and compresses its KV cache across layers, which the calculator does not model, so the KV cache figure is an upper bound. How the KV cache works.

ContextKV cache, FP16KV cache, FP8Total at Q4_K_M
4K tokens 488 MB 244 MB 992 GB
32K tokens 3.81 GB 1.91 GB 996 GB
128K tokens 15.3 GB 7.63 GB 1,008 GB
1M tokens 122 GB 61.0 GB 1,126 GB

Which GPUs can run DeepSeek V4 Pro

With 8,192 tokens of context. Several GPUs means one tensor-parallel group of 2, 4 or 8 cards.

GPUMemoryQ4_K_MFP8
RTX 3060 12 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 3090 / 4090 24 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 5090 32 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
A100 40GB 40 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
Mac, 64 GB unified memory about 75% of it is usable by the GPU by default 48 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
L40S / RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
A100 / H100 80GB 80 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
Mac, 128 GB unified memory about 75% of it is usable by the GPU by default 96 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
H200 141 GB Needs 8 Needs more than 8
B200 180 GB Needs 8 Needs more than 8

How fast DeepSeek V4 Pro writes

Tokens per second for one request with 8,192 tokens of context, estimated from memory bandwidth and the parameters read per token. A dash means it does not fit on one card. Try other settings in the speed calculator.

HardwareBandwidthQ4_K_MFP8
RTX 3060 12GB 360 GB/s — —
RTX 4090 1,008 GB/s — —
RTX 5090 1,792 GB/s — —
M4 Max Mac (128 GB) 546 GB/s — —
M3 Ultra Mac Studio (512 GB) 819 GB/s — —
H100 SXM 3,350 GB/s — —
H200 4,800 GB/s — —

Longest context on one GPU

How many tokens of context fit on a single card with one request and an FP16 KV cache. "Full" means the model's whole context window fits.

GPUMemoryQ4_K_MQ8_0FP8
RTX 3060 12 GB No No No
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB No No No
RTX 3090 / 4090 24 GB No No No
RTX 5090 32 GB No No No
A100 40GB 40 GB No No No
Mac, 64 GB unified memory 48 GB No No No
L40S / RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB No No No
A100 / H100 80GB 80 GB No No No
Mac, 128 GB unified memory 96 GB No No No
H200 141 GB No No No
B200 180 GB No No No

Model details

Parameters
1.60T (1,598,839,674,782)
Experts
384 routed experts, all loaded
Active per token
49B
Layers
All 61 layers use full attention
Attention cache
1 KV heads × 512
Context length
1,048,576 tokens
Published weights
805 GB (4.3 bits/weight)
On Hugging Face
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro

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