HARDWARE FIT CHECK • DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE + AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)151.34 GB / 20 GB VRAM

Can I Run DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE (236B) on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6) (20 GB).

✕ OOM151.34 GB (757%)0 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

interactive
Frontier 338-Language Coding & Multi-Repo Math on 64GB–128GB Rigs
GPU Topology / Quantity:Single GPU / Unified SoC
DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)

✕ Out of Memory — Exceeds VRAM Capacity

✕ OOM
Required VRAM
151.34 GB
757% of hardware capacity (20 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
0 tok/s
16B active params @ 800 GB/s
Available Headroom
-131.34 GB
Needs +131.34 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
151.34 GB allocated of 20 GB capacity
757% utilized
Weights: 141.6 GB
KV: (32K): 4.03 GB
Overhead: 5.71 GB
Deficit: -131.34 GB
⚡ Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~0 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6) (800 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~0 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).
OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1 OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0 ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:236b

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

⚠️ Out of VRAM: High-Capacity Hardware Upgrades
High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Multi-GPU Rig↑ Upgrade
48 GB VRAM

2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dual Rig (48GB Total VRAM)

Best price-to-VRAM homelab rig for 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 3.8 27B Q8

936 GB/s700W TDP
Apple Silicon↑ Upgrade
112 GB VRAM

Apple Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB Unified Memory)

Running Llama 4 Scout 109B & 70B Q8 locally with 128K+ context

546 GB/s145W TDP
Consumer GPU
20 GB VRAM

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)

Sub-$700 GPU with 20GB VRAM fitting 14B Q8 and 27B Q4 models

800 GB/s315W TDP

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx • KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw472 GB4.03 GB493.3 GB (2467%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw250.16 GB4.03 GB263.7 GB (1318%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw193.52 GB4.03 GB205.07 GB (1025%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw167.56 GB4.03 GB178.2 GB (891%)0 t/sOOM
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw141.6 GB4.03 GB151.34 GB (757%)0 t/sOOM
FP44.25 bpw125.08 GB4.03 GB134.24 GB (671%)0 t/sOOM
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw96.76 GB4.03 GB104.93 GB (525%)0 t/sOOM

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FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)

How much VRAM does DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE need on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE requires 151.34 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE achieve on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)?

Based on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20GB GDDR6)'s 800 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 0 tokens per second.

Can I expand context beyond 32K tokens?

Each additional 32K tokens of context requires additional KV cache memory. For longer context windows, consider 8-bit or 4-bit KV cache quantization.