How to Run DeepSeek-R1 on a 6GB VRAM GPU Without Crashing
I tried loading the full DeepSeek-R1 model on my 6GB RTX 2060 laptop expecting it to just work, and instead got an out-of-memory crash before it even finished loading the model weights. If you’ve hit the same wall, the short answer is you’re not running the full 671B model on 6GB no matter what you … Read more