DeepSeek-V3-0324 GPU Requirements: VRAM & Cheapest GPU
DeepSeek-V3-0324 has about 685B parameters. See exactly how much GPU memory it needs at FP16, INT8, and INT4, and the cheapest GPU to run it, with live hourly pricing from 5+ data center partners.
- Parameters
- 685B
- Min VRAM (INT4)
- 373 GB
- Cheapest (INT4)
- $6.24/hr
- Deploy
- < 2 min
To run DeepSeek-V3-0324 for inference at FP16, you need roughly 1492 GB of VRAM. The cheapest fit on Spheron AI is 8x B300 288GB at about $59.76/hr. Quantize to INT4 to run it on a smaller, cheaper GPU.
VRAM required
Estimated peak VRAM including weights, activations, and KV cache. Add 10% headroom for production traffic.
- 01$7.47/hr$59.76/hr8× B300 288GBCHEAPESTBlackwell Ultra · HBM3e
- 02$11.06/hr$88.48/hr8× B200 192GBBlackwell · HBM3e
Live pricing aggregated from 5+ data center partners. Per-minute billing, no commitments.
VRAM required to run DeepSeek-V3-0324
Estimated peak VRAM at context length 4,096 and batch size 1, including weights, activations, and KV cache. Quantizing to INT8 (Q8) or INT4 (Q4) cuts memory roughly in half and in quarter.
| Precision | Inference | LoRA fine-tune | Full fine-tune |
|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 | 1492 GB | 2238 GB | 5969 GB |
| INT8 | 746 GB | 1119 GB | 2985 GB |
| INT4 | 373 GB | 560 GB | 1492 GB |
Cheapest GPU to run DeepSeek-V3-0324 by precision
1492GB
Full precision. Best quality, highest memory.
746GB
8-bit quantized. ~2x smaller, minimal quality loss.
373GB
4-bit quantized. ~4x smaller, runs on smaller GPUs.
Inference vs fine-tuning DeepSeek-V3-0324
Inference only holds the model weights plus a KV cache, so it is the cheapest setup. LoRA fine-tuning adds a small adapter and roughly 50% more memory. Full fine-tuning holds gradients and optimizer state on top of the weights, which is about 4x the inference footprint, so it often needs multiple GPUs even when inference fits on one. For DeepSeek-V3-0324, an on-demand B300 288GB instance covers inference and LoRA, while a full fine-tune needs several times that memory and often spans multiple GPUs. Check the live GPU pricing for current rates.
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DeepSeek-V3-0324 GPU questions
VRAM, GPU choice and cost questions for running DeepSeek-V3-0324 on cloud GPUs.
DeepSeek-V3-0324 has about 685B parameters. At FP16 it needs roughly 1492 GB of VRAM for inference, including weights, activations, and KV cache. Quantized to INT4 that drops to around 373 GB. Leave about 10% headroom for production traffic.
For FP16 inference, the cheapest fit on Spheron AI is 8x B300 288GB at about $59.76/hr. If you quantize to INT4, 8x RTX 6000 Ada 48GB at about $6.24/hr runs it for less. Pricing is aggregated live from 5+ data center partners with per-minute billing.
LoRA fine-tuning adds roughly 50% on top of inference memory, so it usually fits the same class of GPU. Full fine-tuning holds gradients and optimizer state and needs about 4x the inference VRAM, which often means multiple GPUs for DeepSeek-V3-0324. The VRAM matrix above shows the exact estimate for each setup.
We read the parameter count directly from the model's safetensors metadata on HuggingFace, then estimate peak VRAM from weights, activations, KV cache, and framework overhead at your chosen precision. The estimate lands within about 15% of real-world use for most transformer models.
Quantized to INT4, DeepSeek-V3-0324 needs about 373 GB of VRAM, so it is too large for a single 24 GB RTX 4090 and needs a bigger card or multiple GPUs. At FP16 it needs roughly 1492 GB, which usually means a data center GPU. The precision picks above list the cheapest GPU that fits each setup.
No. Even quantized to INT4, DeepSeek-V3-0324 needs about 373 GB of VRAM, so it takes 5 x 80 GB GPUs at minimum, and 19 x 80 GB GPUs at FP16. The precision picks above show the cheapest GPU that fits each setup on Spheron AI.
DeepSeek-V3-0324 needs 19 x 80 GB GPUs at FP16 (about 1492 GB of VRAM), 10 x 80 GB GPUs at INT8 (746 GB) and 5 x 80 GB GPUs at INT4 (373 GB). At FP16 that is more than one 8-GPU node, so plan for a multi-node cluster with a fast interconnect. Smaller cards such as 48 GB or 24 GB GPUs need proportionally more of them.
DeepSeek-V3-0324 needs about 746 GB of VRAM at INT8, roughly half its FP16 footprint of 1492 GB. The cheapest INT8 fit on Spheron AI is 8x RTX PRO 6000 96GB from $9.12/hr. INT8 is the usual middle ground: half the memory of FP16, with a smaller quality drop than 4-bit quantization.
Running DeepSeek-V3-0324 around the clock at FP16 costs about $43,625 a month on 8x B300 288GB (730 hours at $59.76/hr). Quantized to INT4 it costs about $4,555 a month on 8x RTX 6000 Ada 48GB (730 hours at $6.24/hr). Spheron AI bills per minute, so stopping the instance when it is idle cuts that figure directly.
DeepSeek-V3-0324 needs about 1492 GB at FP16, 746 GB at INT8 and 373 GB at INT4. Use FP16 when output quality matters most or you plan to fine-tune, INT8 for most production inference, and INT4 when cost or GPU size is the constraint: the cheapest INT4 fit is 8x RTX 6000 Ada 48GB at about $6.24/hr.