DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B vs Qwen 3 8B
Architecture Comparison
SpecDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BQwen 3 8B
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters8B8.2B
Active Parameters8B8.2B
Layers3236
Hidden Dimension4,0964,096
Attention Heads3232
KV Heads88
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Memory Requirements
PrecisionDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BQwen 3 8B
BF16 Weights16.0 GB16.4 GB
FP8 Weights8.0 GB8.2 GB
INT4 Weights4.0 GB4.1 GB
KV-Cache / Token131072 B147456 B
Activation Estimate1.00 GB1.00 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM1 GPU1 GPU
L40S1 GPU1 GPU
Quality Benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BQwen 3 8B
Overall5067
MMLUN/A72.0
HumanEvalN/A42.0
GSM8KN/A78.0
MT-BenchN/A77.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B
Qwen 3 8B
MMLU
72.0
HumanEval
42.0
GSM8K
78.0
MT-Bench
77.0
Capabilities
FeatureDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BQwen 3 8B
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✗ No✗ No
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✓ Yes✓ Yes
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes
API Pricing Comparison
Cheapest Output (DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B)
$0.20/M
Input: $0.20/M
Cheapest Output (Qwen 3 8B)
$0.20/M
Input: $0.20/M
| Provider | DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B In $/M | Out $/M | Qwen 3 8B In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| fireworks | — | — | $0.20 | $0.20 |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣Qwen 3 8B scores higher on overall quality (67 vs 50).
- ‣DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B has a smaller memory footprint (16.0 GB vs 16.4 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
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