Can a MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC LHR run DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B?

Sort of — Runs with compromises

Too big for 8 GB of VRAM (needs ~23 GB), but it can run by offloading part of the model to system RAM — slower, and it uses your RAM. A smaller quantization may help.

Your VRAM