Will it run? / DeepSeek-R1 14B / Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB)

Can the Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) run DeepSeek-R1 14B?

Usable, but slow Yes, at about 6.0 tokens/sec (estimated). It works, but you'll wait on longer answers.

6.0estimated tokens/sec
10.5 GBmemory needed
27.2 GBavailable to the model
89.6 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run deepseek-r1:14b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 9 GB. The Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) moves 89.6 GB/s, so the ceiling is 10.0 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 60%, an assumption until we get measured runs for this kind of machine. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.

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