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 | Size | Runtime | Gen tok/s | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 / CM5 | 1.5B | Ollama | 9.04 | source ↗ 2026-01-20 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 8GB | 1.5B | 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$175official list price after Apr 2026 increase · price source ↗ (2026-04-01)Buy at Seeed StudioBuy on Amazon
- Raspberry Pi 5 16GB$305official list price after Apr 2026 increase · price source ↗ (2026-04-01)Buy at Seeed StudioBuy on Amazon
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