R1 1776 TPS calculator

Open weights Perplexity 671B parameters February 2025

Each card below is assessed against this model at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from the card's memory bandwidth and the size of the model once compressed.

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Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Perplexity
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
18 February 2025

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat
Base model
DeepSeek-R1

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
671B

671B params

Training data
tokens

40k multilingual prompts assuming ~1000 tokens per prompt -> 40M tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

How it was established
Operation counting
Fine-tuning compute
8.9 × 10¹⁸ FLOP

Deepseek R1 has 37B active parameters fine-tuning dataset is speculatively estimated to be 40M tokens (see dataset size notes) 6 FLOP / token / parameter * 37 * 10^9 paramters * 40*10^6 tokens = 8.88e+18 FLOP

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Open — downloadable
Model access
Open weights (unrestricted)
Training code
Unreleased

MIT license https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776

Hugging Face
perplexity-ai

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Open-sourcing R1 1776
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Hardware requirements in practice

At 671B parameters, R1 1776 is beyond what any single graphics card holds. Running it means either splitting it across several cards or renting hardware built for the job — 0 of the cards we track can hold it on their own, and all of them are datacentre parts.

About this model

R1 1776 was published by Perplexity, in United States of America, in February 2025. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat.

It builds on DeepSeek-R1, which is why it shares that model's general shape and size.

Published weights mean the model runs on your machine rather than someone else's, which is what makes the hardware question below answerable at all. It is published under the perplexity-ai organisation on Hugging Face.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for R1 1776

The table above has already assessed every card we hold specifications for against this model. Getting to your answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Read the memory figure first

    The table lists every card that can hold R1 1776. That figure, not the card's headline performance, is what decides whether it runs.

  2. 02

    Set the context length you will work at

    The conversation occupies memory too, and grows as it goes. Set the slider to the length you expect: at long context R1 1776 can slip off a card that handles short questions easily.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress it

    Compression is what makes R1 1776 fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy. A minimum quality removes the ones that go too far.

  4. 04

    Compare tokens per second, not specifications

    Sort by speed to see how cards rank for R1 1776. It will not match a gaming ordering — generation is bound by memory bandwidth.

  5. 05

    Look at the headroom, not just the fit

    The fit column separates cards that just manage R1 1776 from those with room to spare. Buy for the second if the context might grow.

  6. 06

    Check the card from the other side

    Following a card through to its own page shows every other model it can hold, which is the question that follows once R1 1776 is settled.

Answers

R1 1776 — common questions

01

Can I run R1 1776 if it does not fit in my GPU?

Partly. Layers that do not fit sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded R1 1776 is rarely worth using — the nearest miss we calculate is short by 147.5 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is on the card.

02

Would two GPUs run R1 1776 faster?

A second card roughly doubles the memory available but not the generation rate. With 0 cards already able to run R1 1776 alone, the case for pairing is weak.

03

Why does the quantisation differ between cards for R1 1776?

Because capacity varies, so does how hard R1 1776 has to be squeezed — 1 distinct levels appear in the table above. Set a minimum quality to compare at one.

04

How accurate are these R1 1776 speed estimates?

Every figure is derived from memory bandwidth and model size, not benchmarked. That is why each is published as a range such as the range beneath each figure rather than a single number.

05

Is R1 1776 open source?

Its weights are published, so R1 1776 can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

06

How many parameters does R1 1776 have?

R1 1776 has 671B parameters. 671B params. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

07

Who created R1 1776?

R1 1776 was published by Perplexity, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

08

When was R1 1776 released?

R1 1776 was published in February 2025.

09

What is R1 1776 used for?

R1 1776 works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

10

Where can I download R1 1776?

Its weights are published under the perplexity-ai organisation on Hugging Face. We do not host model files — this site calculates what hardware is needed to run them.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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