DeepSeek V4.1 Flash runs 1M context in under 0.9GB RAM vs 320GB for Llama 70B
gnukeith · x · 2026-10-29
Developer gnukeith highlights DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as an engineering marvel: running a 1M-token context window needs under 0.9GB of RAM, compared to roughly 320GB for Llama 3.3 70B and 144GB for Qwen 3 8B — a gap of hundreds of times, indicating extreme KV cache compression that drastically lowers the memory barrier for long-context inference.
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