AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs

Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on AMD Ryzen AI and Radeon

Reasoning models are a new class of large language models (LLMs) designed to tackle highly complex tasks by employing chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning with the tradeoff of taking longer to respond. The DeepSeek R1 is a recently released frontier “reasoning” model which has been distilled into highly capable smaller models. Deploying these DeepSeek R1 distilled models on AMD Ryzen AI processors and Radeon graphics cards is incredibly easy and ava…

AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs

AMD has provided instructions on how to run DeepSeek R1 on its latest consumer-based Ryzen AI and RX 7000 series CPUs and GPUs.

AMD Explains How to run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning Models on AMD Ryzen AI and Radeon GPUs

DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning models use chain-of-thought reasoning to analyze complex prompts in detail. Instead of producing immediate replies, they spend time generating a “thinking” sequence, which often involves processing hundreds or thousands of tokens internally.

AMD Details DeepSeek R1 Performance on Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Confirms Ryzen AI Max Memory Sizes

AMD today put out detailed guides on how to get DeepSeek R1 distilled reasoning models to run on Radeon RX graphics cards and Ryzen AI processors. The guide confirms that the new Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" processors come in hardwired to LPCAMM2 memory configurations of 32 GB, 64 GB, and 128 GB, and there won't be a 16 GB memory option for notebook manufacturers to cheap out with. The guide goes on to explain that "Strix Halo" will be able to loc…