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DeepSeek-R1-Distill 32B on Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB)

32.764B on 128 GB at 256 GB/s. Hardware details · Model details

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Yes. DeepSeek-R1-Distill 32B fits on Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB) at the recommended Q8_0 configuration, requiring approximately 37.1 GB at 8K context. Practical context capacity is 128K. Expected decode for the recommended configuration is ~2.9–4.2 t/s. Estimated
CompatibilityComfortable
Calculated fit
Yes
Calculated Uses under 80% of usable memory. Room for a long context and other work.
Recommended quantization
Q8_0
Calculated gguf
Memory required
37.1 GB
Calculated of 105.0 GB usable — 35%
Max practical context
128K
Calculated model supports 128K

Memory budget at 8K context

Model weights ⓘ
33.1 GB Calculated
KV cache ⓘ
2.0 GB Calculated
Runtime overhead ⓘ
2.0 GB Estimated
Total required
37.1 GB Calculated
Headroom ⓘ
67.9 GB Calculated
Highest-precision quantization that leaves headroom: uses 35% of usable memory at 8K context.
Unified LPDDR: the accelerator allocates from the same 128 GB pool as the OS. We assume 82% is available to the inference engine.
Performance

Estimated performance · recommended Q8_0

Decode, prefill and TTFT below are estimates for Q8_0. We do not have a comparable Q8_0 measurement on this machine.

Estimated decode
~2.9–4.2 t/s
Estimated Q8_0; calculated range
Estimated prefill
~105–219 t/s
Estimated Q8_0; calculated range
Estimated TTFT at 8K
~37.5–78.1 s
Estimated Q8_0; calculated range
Hardware load reference
130 W
Measured machine-level load; not this model run
How the estimate is calculated
  1. Decode: reading 32.8B active parameters at 8.50 bits/weight takes 281.94 ms at 256 GB/s x 48% achieved efficiency.
  2. Prefill: 59 TFLOPS (FP16) x 18% assumed model-FLOPs utilisation, divided by 2 x 32.8B parameters per token.
  • Prefill throughput is highly engine-dependent. Flash attention, batch size and quantized KV all move this number substantially, and for sparse mixture-of-experts models it is the least reliable figure we produce.
  • This is a calculated estimate, not a measurement. It assumes a single request, a short prompt, no speculative decoding and a warm model already resident in memory.

Estimator version estimator_v1. Stored with every estimated row so old estimates can be regenerated when the model improves.

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This model at other quantizations on this machine
QuantizationResidentDiskTotal neededUtilisationFitMax context
Q4_K_M19.1 GB19.1 GB22.6 GB22%Comfortable128K
Q5_K_M22.4 GB22.4 GB26.0 GB25%Comfortable128K
Q8_0recommended33.1 GB33.1 GB37.1 GB35%Comfortable128K
BF1661.0 GB61.0 GB65.9 GB63%Comfortable128K
Cost of running DeepSeek-R1-Distill 32B on this machineUnited States (federal) · C corporation · 8h/day
Monthly economic cost
$28
Calculated after tax
Codex/Claude Code
$100/mo
≈ $100/mo · local is $72 less
Net cash at purchase
$2,161
Calculated VAT not reclaimable
Total over 5 years
$1,673
Calculated after tax, after resale
Cost per USD/1M tokens
$62.38
Calculated 0.4M tokens/month

The $100 comparison uses the Codex Pro 5x / Claude Max 5x plans. A fixed planning conversion is used for USD. This compares monthly spend only: subscriptions have usage limits, local hardware has different capabilities and constraints, and taxes or regional pricing may change the charged amount. Prices checked 7 September 2026.

Purchase-price input: $2,161 in United States (federal), tax/VAT excluded · estimated · Framework (converted catalogue estimate). This is the localized purchase input; the after-tax economic cost is calculated separately below.

Monthly breakdown

Depreciation
1,837 over 5 years, straight-line to a 324 residual
$30.62
Electricity
6.3 kWh/month at 0.140/kWh
$0.88
Cost of capital
4.0%/yr on 1,243 average capital employed
$4.14
Monthly cost before tax$35.63
Electricity tax shield
Running costs are deductible business expenses
−$0.18
First-year expensing
§179 (100.0%)
−$7.56
Monthly economic cost after tax$27.89

Three different numbers, deliberately

Cash cost
$2,161
Money that leaves the bank account on day one, net of reclaimable VAT.
Accounting depreciation
$30.62/month
$1,837 written down over 5 years to a $324 residual.
After-tax economic cost
$27.89/month
Depreciation plus running costs plus cost of capital, less the tax those deductions save. This is the figure to compare between machines.
Assumptions and sources (verified 2026-09-07)
VAT rate
0% Official spec
VAT recoverable
0% Official spec
Federal C-corporation estimate at the flat 21% rate. Pass-through entities should use the sole-proprietor estimate as a rougher proxy.
Effective deduction rate
21.00% Calculated
Headline marginal rate 21.00%.
Depreciation
5 years, straight-line Assumption
Residual value
$324 (15%) Assumption
Two GPU generations later, the card is worth a fraction of its list price.
Electricity
$0.140/kWh Assumption
Average power draw
36 W Calculated
Load 130 W for 20% of powered hours, idle 12 W for the rest — a machine that is on is not generating tokens the whole time.
Investment allowances
§179 100.0% Official spec
Worth $454 in total — first-year expensing that replaces later tax depreciation.
Cost of capital
$4.14/month Assumption
Assumes the machine generates tokens 20% of its 176 powered hours per month. Cost per token scales inversely with this number — halve the utilisation and the cost per token doubles.
Federal planning estimate only, not tax advice. State and local income tax, sales/use tax and incentives are excluded. It assumes 100% business use, a Section 179 election, enough business income to use it, and that the full annual limit remains available.
Efficiency metrics
Decode per $1,000 spent
1.6 t/s
Calculated purchase price only
Decode per $100/month
12.7 t/s
Calculated after-tax ownership cost
Tokens per joule
0.10
Calculated same as tokens/s per watt
USD per 1M output tokens
$62.38
Calculated at 20% utilisation
Local versus hosted APIs
Hosted modelUSD/1M outputBreak-evenAPI at your volumeVerdictComparison type
Qwen3.8 Flash
Alibaba Cloud
$0.4218.1M/mo$1API cheaperDifferent model
DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
$0.6015.5M/mo$1API cheaperDifferent model
DeepSeek-V4 Pro
DeepSeek
$1.983.8M/mo$3API cheaperDifferent model
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Together)
Together AI
$4.401.3M/mo$9API cheaperDifferent model
GLM-5.3
Z.ai
$4.401.8M/mo$7API cheaperDifferent model
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
$5.002.1M/mo$6API cheaperDifferent model
Different-model comparison: the hosted model is not the model you would run locally. Treat this as a workload-quality trade-off, not a direct economic equivalence — the frontier model may complete a task in fewer tokens, or complete tasks the local model cannot. Break-even is the monthly output volume at which API spend equals the $28/month economic cost of owning this machine, assuming 8 input tokens per output token. Hosted prices are published in USD. This table is the canonical US default.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill 32B on other hardware
HardwareDecodePriceFit
NVIDIA DGX H200 (8x H200, 1,128 GB)~307–441 t/s$359,430 *Comfortable
Quad RTX 5090 workstation (4x 32 GB)~65.3–94 t/s$12,611 *Comfortable
Lenovo ThinkStation PX (4x RTX PRO 6000, 384 GB)~57–82 t/s$58,553 *Comfortable
RTX 5090 workstation (1x 32 GB)~55.4–79.7 t/s$3,332 *Comfortable
Dual RTX 5090 workstation (2x 32 GB)~43.3–62.3 t/s$5,854 *Comfortable
Dell Precision 7960 Rack (2x RTX PRO 6000, 192 GB)~39.7–57.1 t/s$36,663 *Comfortable
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