Can Desktop PC · GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · 32 GB RAM run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B?

16 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM · 448 GB/s memory bandwidth · DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B has 8.2B parameters.

Short answer

Yes, excellent for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.

Best quantization for chat: Q6_K (6.5 GB of weights) on Ollama. Generation: 40–55 tok/s, leaving about 6.6 GB free for your other apps.

How it rates for each workload

Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.

Workload	Verdict	Quant	Generation	First reply	Context
Chatwith Open WebUI	Excellent	Q6_K	40–55 tok/s	under 1 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Comfortable	Q6_K	40–50 tok/s	≈2 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Acceptable	Q8_0	25–35 tok/s	≈6 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Acceptable	Q8_0	25–35 tok/s	≈8 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Comfortable	Q3_K_M	25–35 tok/s	≈35 s	64K	Details

Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate

Get it running

Copy-paste commands for the Q3_K_M build with a 64K context. Ollama and llama.cpp download the file straight from Hugging Face.

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q3_K_M

Downloads 4.12 GB (Q3_K_M). Ollama's default context is small: set OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=65536 before `ollama serve` for long prompts.

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