DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B) on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Can the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX run DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B)?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 18.7 GB of 24.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 118 tok/s.

Best quant: Q8_0
Generation speed: 118 tok/s
Prompt processing: 31,723 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 160K

Best app to run it on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.

lemonade pull lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

On Linux

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.

lemonade pull lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

Want an agent? DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B)

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Q8_0. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b-lite-instruct-q8_0

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q8_0 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from DeepSeek, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from DeepSeek. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	23.4 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	15.0 / 15
Match score	78.4 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	8.3 GB	24.0 GB	219 tok/s	Runs great	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
`Q3_K_M`	9.8 GB	24.0 GB	197 tok/s	Runs great	43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (Q3_K_L) (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	11.6 GB	24.0 GB	175 tok/s	Runs great	49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	13.2 GB	24.0 GB	157 tok/s	Runs great	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	14.9 GB	24.0 GB	143 tok/s	Runs great	51Fair quality (C) · 51 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	18.7 GB	24.0 GB	118 tok/s	Runs great	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	33.5 GB	24.0 GB	20.4 tok/s	Slowheavy RAM offload	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (64 GB) F16 · 45.3 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 126 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 131 tok/s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q5_K_M · 128 tok/s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) Q5_K_M · 73.7 tok/s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Q5_K_M · 85.3 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B) need on the RX 7900 XTX 24GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 18.7 GB. The RX 7900 XTX 24GB has 24.0 GB usable.

How fast is DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B) on the RX 7900 XTX 24GB?

About 118 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B) should I use on the RX 7900 XTX 24GB?

Q8_0. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.