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August 23, 2026No. 113
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Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB GDDR6

Can the Radeon RX 7900 XTX run DeepSeek V4 Flash?

Does not fit at Q4_K_M.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is 284B parameters (MoE; all experts resident). At Q4_K_M the weights are about 158.7 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 160.2 GiB against the card's 24GB, about 136.2 GiB more than the card has.

All three quants

24GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant158.7 GiB160.2 GiBDoes not fitshort 136.2 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless280.4 GiB281.9 GiBDoes not fitshort 257.9 GiB
FP16full weights529.0 GiB530.5 GiBDoes not fitshort 506.5 GiB

Verdict rules: fits comfortably when weights plus reserve sit within 85% of VRAM; tight when they fit with little left for context; CPU offload when they exceed VRAM by up to 2x (runs, slowly, with layers in system RAM); no beyond that. The KV cache per token depends on the model's architecture and is not modelled here.

Not this card. These fit it comfortably at Q4.

Nothing in the consumer catalog fits DeepSeek V4 Flash at Q4 on a single card; this is multi-GPU or datacenter territory, or a job for hosted inference (see PicksByModel for per-token pricing).

What the Radeon RX 7900 XTX does run well → · DeepSeek V4 Flash on every card →

About the model

DeepSeek V4 Flash by DeepSeek: 1,048,576-token native context, text, released 2026 under the MIT. Model card → · Hosted pricing on PicksByModel →

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