Raspberry Pi 5 / DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B
Can a Raspberry Pi 5 run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B?
Yes, usable but slower than reading speed. Measured generation speed: 0.32–9.04 tok/s across 2 public runs.
Rule of thumb: 10+ tok/s feels like a chat; 4–10 is usable for assistants and automations; under 4 is batch-job territory. Speeds depend on quantization, runtime, context length and cooling. Check each source.
| Board | Quant | Runtime | Gen tok/s | Prompt tok/s | TTFT ms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 / CM5 | Ollama default | Ollama | 9.04 | – | – | source ↗ 2026-01-20 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 8GB | not reported | Ollama | 0.32 | – | – | source ↗ 2026-04-24 |
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B on other boards
- M5Stack LLM8850 13.29 tok/s best
- Rockchip RK3588 11.5 tok/s best
- Jetson Orin Nano Super 9.59 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 + AI HAT+ 2 7.05 tok/s best
- M5Stack Module LLM 3.57 tok/s best
Buy a Raspberry Pi 5
- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB: $175 official list price after Apr 2026 increase, source ↗ (2026-04-01) Check price (affiliate slot)
- Raspberry Pi 5 16GB: $305 official list price after Apr 2026 increase, source ↗ (2026-04-01) Check price (affiliate slot)
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