DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat on NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Can the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation run DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 20.5 GB of 32.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 86.3 tok/s.

Best quant: Q8_0
Generation speed: 86.3 tok/s
Prompt processing: 16,791 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 4K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

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 MoE 16B Chat

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/mradermacher/deepseek-moe-16b-chat-i1-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/deepseek-moe-16b-chat-i1-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-moe-16b-chat (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (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 NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation: 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.	11.7 / 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.	14.8 / 15
Match score	66.5 / 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 NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	9.7 GB	32.0 GB	181 tok/s	Runs great	18Basic quality (D) · 18 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	11.2 GB	32.0 GB	159 tok/s	Runs great	21Basic quality (D) · 21 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	13.1 GB	32.0 GB	137 tok/s	Runs great	24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	14.8 GB	32.0 GB	121 tok/s	Runs great	25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	16.6 GB	32.0 GB	107 tok/s	Runs great	25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	20.5 GB	32.0 GB	86.3 tok/s	Runs great	26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	35.9 GB	32.0 GB	27.3 tok/s	Runs welloffloads to RAM	26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 4K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q8_0 · 108 tok/s · Runs great
26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 116 tok/s · Runs great
26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 121 tok/s · Runs great
26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q8_0 · 159 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q4_K_M · 133 tok/s · Runs great
24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) Q4_K_M · 76.5 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat need on the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 20.5 GB. The NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32GB has 32.0 GB usable.

How fast is DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat on the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32GB?

About 86.3 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat should I use on the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32GB?

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.