No — not on this device

DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B at Q4_K_M needs 160.7 GB against 51.2 GB usable, and the shortfall of 109.5 GB is more than 32 GB of system RAM can cover at a tolerable speed. A smaller sibling or a lower quantisation is the honest answer here.

Does not fit 8K context Q4_K_M · 159.7 GB MIT Released 31 Jul 2026 New this month Not in the Ollama library

The V4 that 128 GB machines can actually run at Q3. Cache is modelled as a 576-wide latent; V4 compresses it further at long context, so this is conservative.

What hardware do I need for DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 159.7 GB
Weights 159.7 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.38 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Over budget 109.5 GB past 51.2 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 281.0 GB 282.0 GB ~1.3 −0.1% ppl 230.8 GB over
Q6_K 216.9 GB 217.9 GB ~1.7 −0.4% ppl 166.7 GB over
Q5_K_M 187.5 GB 188.4 GB ~2.0 −0.8% ppl 137.2 GB over
Q4_K_M 159.7 GB 160.7 GB ~2.3 −1.9% ppl 109.5 GB over
Q3_K_M 129.3 GB 130.3 GB ~2.8 −5.4% ppl 79.1 GB over
Q2_K 110.8 GB 111.7 GB ~3.3 −15% ppl 60.5 GB over

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model uses multi-head latent attention, so its cache is a compressed latent rather than full K and V.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 13

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 159.7 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03If it falls back to CPU silently, drop the context first, then step down a quantisation.
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