DeepSeek-V4 Flash on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation (96 GB)
304.18B (13B active) on 96 GB at 1,792 GB/s. Hardware details · Model details
Marginal. DeepSeek-V4 Flash fits on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation (96 GB) at the recommended
DS4 Q2 (mixed) configuration, requiring approximately 85.1 GB at 8K context. Practical context capacity is 8K.CompatibilityBorderline
Calculated fit
Yes
Calculated Uses 90-97% of usable memory. Likely to load but fragile under load or long context.
Recommended quantization
DS4 Q2 (mixed)
Calculated gguf
Memory required
85.1 GB
Calculated of 88.3 GB usable — 96%
Max practical context
8K
Calculated model supports 1M
Memory budget at 8K context
Model weights ⓘ
81.0 GB Measured
KV cache ⓘ
0.7 GB Calculated
Runtime overhead ⓘ
3.4 GB Estimated
Total required
85.1 GB Calculated
Headroom ⓘ
3.2 GB Calculated
Only a borderline fit (96% of usable memory). Expect to run headless and keep the context short.
Discrete GPU: 96 GB of VRAM, of which we assume 92% is usable after driver and context overhead.
Mixture of experts: all 304.18B parameters must be resident in memory even though only ~13B are active per token. Memory follows total parameters; speed follows active parameters.
Borderline fit. It may load, but you will have little room for a longer context, a second process, or a desktop session.
Performance
Estimated performance · recommended DS4 Q2 (mixed)
Decode, prefill and TTFT below are estimates for DS4 Q2 (mixed). We do not have a comparable DS4 Q2 (mixed) measurement on this machine.
Estimated decode
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Estimated DS4 Q2 (mixed); calculated range
Estimated prefill
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Estimated DS4 Q2 (mixed); calculated range
Estimated TTFT at 8K
~3.9–8.1 s
Estimated DS4 Q2 (mixed); calculated range
Hardware load reference
660 W
Measured machine-level load; not this model run
No throughput figures for this configuration. We do not estimate performance for a model that cannot load.
How the estimate is calculated
- Decode: reading 13.0B active parameters at 2.29 bits/weight takes 2.79 ms at 1792 GB/s x 74% achieved efficiency.
- MoE routing penalty of 15% applied: expert gathers are less bandwidth-efficient than a dense sweep.
- Prefill: 232 TFLOPS (FP16) x 4 for native FP4 tensor cores x 0.67 calibrated against measured prefill on this platform x 32% assumed model-FLOPs utilisation, divided by 2 x 62.9B parameters per token.
- Prefill uses 62.9B effective parameters, not the 13B active in decode: a batch of hundreds of tokens routes across most of the expert pool.
- MoE decode depends on how well the engine batches expert gathers; real results vary more than for dense models.
- 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
| Quantization | Resident | Disk | Total needed | Utilisation | Fit | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DS4 Q2 (mixed)recommended | 81.0 GB | 81.0 GB | 85.1 GB | 96% | Borderline | 8K |
Q4_K_M | 176.9 GB | 176.9 GB | 183.9 GB | 208% | Does not fit | 0 |
Q5_K_M | 207.5 GB | 207.5 GB | 215.4 GB | 244% | Does not fit | 0 |
Q8_0 | 307.0 GB | 307.0 GB | 317.9 GB | 360% | Does not fit | 0 |
Cost of running DeepSeek-V4 Flash on this machineUnited States (federal) · C corporation · 8h/day
Monthly economic cost
$134
Calculated after tax
Codex/Claude Code
$100/mo
≈ $100/mo · local is $34 more
Net cash at purchase
$10,359
Calculated VAT not reclaimable
Total over 5 years
$8,031
Calculated after tax, after resale
Cost per USD/1M tokens
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Calculated
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: $10,359 in United States (federal), tax/VAT excluded · estimated · NL workstation integrator (converted catalogue estimate). This is the localized purchase input; the after-tax economic cost is calculated separately below.
Monthly breakdown
| Depreciation 8,805 over 5 years, straight-line to a 1,554 residual | $146.75 |
| Electricity 31.7 kWh/month at 0.140/kWh | $4.44 |
| Cost of capital 4.0%/yr on 5,956 average capital employed | $19.85 |
| Monthly cost before tax | $171.04 |
| Electricity tax shield Running costs are deductible business expenses | −$0.93 |
| First-year expensing §179 (100.0%) | −$36.26 |
| Monthly economic cost after tax | $133.85 |
Three different numbers, deliberately
Cash cost
$10,359
Money that leaves the bank account on day one, net of reclaimable VAT.
Accounting depreciation
$146.75/month
$8,805 written down over 5 years to a $1,554 residual.
After-tax economic cost
$133.85/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
$1,554 (15%) Assumption
Two GPU generations later, the card is worth a fraction of its list price.
Electricity
$0.140/kWh Assumption
Average power draw
180 W Calculated
Load 660 W for 20% of powered hours, idle 60 W for the rest — a machine that is on is not generating tokens the whole time.
Investment allowances
§179 100.0% Official spec
Worth $2,175 in total — first-year expensing that replaces later tax depreciation.
Cost of capital
$19.85/month Assumption
- VAT rate: No US federal VAT · verified 2026-09-07
- Marginal tax rate: IRS Publication 542 — Corporations · verified 2026-09-07
- VAT recoverable fraction: site assumption · verified 2026-09-07
- Useful life: IRS Publication 946 — How To Depreciate Property · verified 2026-09-07
- Electricity price: Site assumption · verified 2026-09-07
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.
DeepSeek-V4 Flash on other hardware
| Hardware | Decode | Price | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA DGX H200 (8x H200, 1,128 GB) | ~411–592 t/s | $359,430 * | Comfortable |
| Lenovo ThinkStation PX (4x RTX PRO 6000, 384 GB) | ~150–216 t/s | $58,553 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256 GB | ~89.3–129 t/s | $8,647 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB | ~51.8–74.5 t/s | $5,674 * | Comfortable |
| NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 (748 GB) | ~50.4–72.6 t/s | $90,082 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512 GB | ~49.8–71.7 t/s | $11,350 * | Comfortable |
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