Comment by wren6991

Are you counting the n-gram/PLE as part of the model weights there? They can go in host memory. Would be good to show your working. Also the released weights are pre-quantised and presumably QATed, so your "Full Precision" and INT8 are simply not a version of the model that actually exists.

Edit: I went and checked for you. The LM backbone is 307.2 GB (286.1 GiB), straight from DeepSeek's upload. The n-gram table is 203.1 GB (189.1 GiB), which goes in host RAM. Note the embeddings are higher precision than the expert tensors, so it's a larger fraction of the bytes than it is of the parameters.

So,

> Call me crazy but:

You're crazy. :-)