How much VRAM does DeepSeek-V4-Flash-162B need?

Its published quantizations range from 55.09 GiB to 72.27 GiB in weights alone, before KV cache and runtime overhead.

Can I run DeepSeek-V4-Flash-162B on a Apple M5 Max?

Q: Can I run DeepSeek-V4-Flash-162B on a Apple M5 Max?

No. No published quantization of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-162B fits a Apple M5 Max at any context with q8_0 KV cache.

Not at these settings. No indexed quantization of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-162B fits Apple M5 Max at any context we compute, with q8_0 KV. The smallest shipped quantization is 55.09 GiB in weights alone, against 44.64 GiB usable. CPU offload can still run it, slowly.

From the file· weights summed from filesFrom the file· KV computed per layerPredicted· speed and compute buffer

KV cache dtypef16 q8_0 q4_0— 64 GB card, 44.64 GiB usable after overhead

Every quantization at every context

total memory required; green fits, red does not

Quant	Weights●	4K◐	8K◐	16K◐	32K◐	64K◐	128K◐
Q3_K_M	72.27 GiB	73.0	73.2	73.6	74.3	75.7	78.6
Q2_K	55.09 GiB	55.9	56.0	56.4	57.1	58.5	61.4

●From the file◐Predictedwhat these mean

Figures are GiB of total memory: weights plus KV cache plus compute buffer and backend overhead. Weights and KV are near-exact; the overhead term is modeled. Hover any cell for the breakdown.

Why other calculators disagree

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate ignores two things that dominate at long context. First, the weights themselves are not the nominal rate — quantizations are mixtures, so the real file is consistently larger than the label implies. Second, most of this model's layers cache only a 128-token window rather than the full context.