Best home rig for DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B

Older model. For current picks see 2025–2026 models.

Real, measured generation speeds for DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B on home hardware, fastest first. Different quants/engines aren't directly comparable.

Build	Quant	Engine	tok/s	Cost
Framework Desktop (AMD Strix Halo) mainboard	Ollama default	Ollama (CPU only, iGPU not used)	19.49		source

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FAQ

What is the fastest measured hardware for DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B?

Framework Desktop (AMD Strix Halo) mainboard: 19.49 tok/s generation (Ollama (CPU only, iGPU not used), Ollama default), from https://github.com/geerlingguy/ai-benchmarks/issues/21.