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[AI] Looking for a server with dedicated GPU to run deepseek-r1:14b

I'm looking for a for a server with dedicated GPU to run deepseek-r1:14b

Hardware requirements:
CPU: not sure yet
RAM: at least 32GB
GPU: at least 16GB vRam

If anyone has some experiences please recommend me the correct hardware configurations and a good provider.

Thanks

Comments

  • NanjaNanja Veteran

    You can ask deepseek what deepseek needs to run itself, deepseek-r1:14b.
    I asked deepseek and it said you do not meet minimum requirements.
    You can run very very light task though.

    Minimum Requirements:
    CPU: 8 cores (Intel Xeon or equivalent)

    RAM: 32 GB

    GPU: 1x NVIDIA A100 (40 GB VRAM) or equivalent

    Storage: 100 GB SSD

    Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 or later

    Recommended Requirements:
    CPU: 16 cores (Intel Xeon or equivalent)

    RAM: 64 GB

    GPU: 2x NVIDIA A100 (40 GB VRAM) or equivalent

    Storage: 200 GB NVMe SSD

    Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 or later

    Thanked by 3comXyz oloke satorik
  • You don't really need a dedicated GPU to run deepseek-r1:14b. I'm running this exact same model on my KS-LE-1 (32 GB RAM, E3-1245 V2), and it runs just fine. It'll spit out 4 - 6 words each second, which is not fast but kinda works for my case. Of course, if you want it to handle heavy workloads, then a GPU is needed.

    The model itself requires about 10 GB of storage, and it costs ~ 12 GB of RAM during running on my server.

    Thanked by 1comXyz
  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep

    Checkout our dedicated VDS GPU lineup
    https://crunchbits.com/gpu/cloud

  • olokeoloke Member, Host Rep

    @Nanja said:
    You can ask deepseek what deepseek needs to run itself, deepseek-r1:14b.
    I asked deepseek and it said you do not meet minimum requirements.
    You can run very very light task though.

    Minimum Requirements:
    CPU: 8 cores (Intel Xeon or equivalent)

    RAM: 32 GB

    GPU: 1x NVIDIA A100 (40 GB VRAM) or equivalent

    Storage: 100 GB SSD

    Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 or later

    Recommended Requirements:
    CPU: 16 cores (Intel Xeon or equivalent)

    RAM: 64 GB

    GPU: 2x NVIDIA A100 (40 GB VRAM) or equivalent

    Storage: 200 GB NVMe SSD

    Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 or later

    Deepseek-r1:14b is based on Qwen 2.5 with 14 billion parameters. It needs minimum of 8 GB VRAM with 4 bit quantization. To conformably use it, I would go with 12 GB VRAM GPU.

    Of course it can be quantized even more (it will be dumb) or run on a CPU (on RAM instead of VRAM).

    I recommend running it on Ollama. Btw there are now some better models (look in Ollama library). Qwen is bad at instruction following. Not sure how much deepseek improves that.

  • Just asking: is that possible training AI module on GPU server and move that data to low end server
    I mean simple server without gpu, does able to respond according to those data?

  • elusiVeRPGelusiVeRPG Member, Host Rep

    Better look for Mac mini with m4 :) for this model it performs gr8 and I think it will be cheaper to buy one and host by self.

  • fiberstatefiberstate Member, Patron Provider
    edited March 2025

    We now offer GeForce RTX 4090 upgrades on any of our Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 dedicated servers.

    https://deals.fiberstate.com/

    Let us know if we can help!

  • @fiberstate said:
    We now offer GeForce RTX 4090 upgrades on any of our Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 dedicated servers.

    https://deals.fiberstate.com/

    Let us know if we can help!

    how much does it cost? I don't see it as an upgrade option on the order form

  • fiberstatefiberstate Member, Patron Provider

    @comXyz said:

    @fiberstate said:
    We now offer GeForce RTX 4090 upgrades on any of our Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 dedicated servers.

    https://deals.fiberstate.com/

    Let us know if we can help!

    how much does it cost? I don't see it as an upgrade option on the order form

    https://billing.fiberstate.com/index.php?rp=/store/bare-metal/amd-ryzen-9-7950x

    If you select our Ryzen 9 9750X package for instance, on the configuration page you'll see a drop down option for GPU: Integrated, you can select the 4090 add-on here.

    RTX 4090 is a $200/mo option.

    Its also available on our Ryzen 7 5700G servers, but these are currently sold out. We should have restock on them in the next week.

  • good topic for AI hosting

  • dataforestdataforest Member, Host Rep

    Hi,

    we can offer: 9900X, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, RTX A6000 for 421,21 EUR per month excl. VAT.

  • We have a few 4090s in stock right now: https://puregpu.com/

  • eva2000eva2000 Veteran
    edited March 2025

    32GB memory probably not enough. As the prompt token input size increases, as does memory requirements as well. I started playing with local AI and 32GB memory isn't enough. Especially if you're dealing with large context token inputs >100,000 and later want to add other tooling like RAG and vector databases.

    Instead check out Openrouter.ai for cloud based have both free and paid LLM models https://openrouter.ai/models. With free Google Gemini 2.0 models and DeepSeek, I've pushed 40 million tokens/month :smiley:

    Some examples

    Thanked by 1abtdw
  • clay_pclay_p Member, Host Rep

    @comXyz said:
    I'm looking for a for a server with dedicated GPU to run deepseek-r1:14b

    Hardware requirements:
    CPU: not sure yet
    RAM: at least 32GB
    GPU: at least 16GB vRam

    If anyone has some experiences please recommend me the correct hardware configurations and a good provider.

    Thanks

    @comXyz said:
    I'm looking for a for a server with dedicated GPU to run deepseek-r1:14b

    Hardware requirements:
    CPU: not sure yet
    RAM: at least 32GB
    GPU: at least 16GB vRam

    If anyone has some experiences please recommend me the correct hardware configurations and a good provider.

    Thanks

    Hello @comXyz

    You can check our GPU servers in Chicago, Florida, Germany, Japan, and Washington.

    Specifications:

    • 2x AMD EPYC 7282 Processors
    • 256GB RAM
    • 1TB NVMe Storage
    • 100TB Bandwidth
    • 8x NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs

    If you need any information, please DM me.

  • Depending on what you want to do with the server, personal or business, esp. expected utilization rate, you might find this open source project helpful: https://docs.skypilot.co/en/latest/docs/index.html

  • vsys_hostvsys_host Member, Patron Provider

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    RAM: 64GB DDR4
    DRIVE: 250Gb SSD
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    CPU: E5-2670V3 (12×2.3GHZ)
    GPU: 2 x GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    RAM: 128GB DDR4
    DRIVE: 250Gb SSD
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    Or check other our plans for dedicated servers with GPU

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