#LLMs6 min readSelf-Hosting DeepSeek-R1 with vLLM: The Hardware, VRAM & AWQ Benchmarking GuideExact memory calculations, tokens/sec benchmarks, and vLLM configuration flags for serving DeepSeek-R1 distilled models on RTX 4090, RTX 3090, and Apple Silicon.Oct 21, 2026Read→