DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
14BDeepSeek
R1 reasoning distilled into 14B. Huge community interest; excellent chain-of-thought.
Consumer GPU
131K
Max Context
3
Quant Variants
EXL2 4.65bpw
Best Quality
98.0%
Accuracy Retained
Quantization Variants
Per-quant VRAM, quality loss, and inference speed on RTX 4090
Measured = site benchmarks · Estimated = formula · Community = public reports
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