DeepSeek-R1 vs Llama-3.1-405B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
9.9 M
mit · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
405.9 B
Context
30d
493 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1 Llama-3.1-405B-FP8
Parameters 684.5 B 405.9 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 163,840
Licence mit llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 9,934,359 493,412
Downloads all time 46.8 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2024-07-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

9.9 M419 K
DeepSeek-R1 Llama-3.1-405B-FP8

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.1-405B-FP8 · fp16 597.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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