DeepSeek-V2-Lite Chat
16BDeepSeek
MoE general model (~2.4B active). Long context and strong multilingual chat.
Consumer GPUMac / Apple Silicon
164K
Max Context
2
Quant Variants
GGUF Q4_K_M
Best Quality
97.0%
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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