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Can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB) run DeepSeek V2 Chat?

43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

No, it doesn’t fit

No. DeepSeek V2 Chat needs about 96.2 GB even at Q2_K; the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB) has 9.1 GB usable.

Download DeepSeek V2 Chat

Recommended: Q2_K. 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-v2:236b-chat-q2_K

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/mradermacher/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-i1-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-i1-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

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

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, 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 Won't run
How well it runs on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB): 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.5.9 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.0.0 / 15
Match score5.9 / 100

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

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 96.2 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q3_K_M 117 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q4_K_M 146 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q5_K_M 169 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q6_K 195 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 61Good quality (B) · 61 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q8_0 252 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
F16 473 GB 9.1 GB — Won't run 62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (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.

Hardware that can run it

Models that do run on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Quick answers

How much memory does DeepSeek V2 Chat need on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 96.2 GB; the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB has 9.1 GB usable.

What can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB run instead?

Mellum2.1 Thinking (12B-A2.5B), Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B and K2 Horizon 7B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run DeepSeek V2 Chat?

M3 Ultra 256GB, M2 Ultra 192GB and M3 Ultra 512GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

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.

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