Rockchip RK3588 / DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B
Can a Rockchip RK3588 run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B?
Yes, at a comfortable chat speed. Measured generation speed: 11.5 tok/s across 1 public run.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockchip RK3588 Indiedroid Nova (RK3588S, 16GB) | RKLLM conversion | RKLLM runtime 1.2.1 | 11.5 | – | – | source ↗ repo 2026-01-12 |
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B on other boards
- M5Stack LLM8850 13.29 tok/s best
- Jetson Orin Nano Super 9.59 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 9.04 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 + AI HAT+ 2 7.05 tok/s best
- M5Stack Module LLM 3.57 tok/s best
Buy a Rockchip RK3588
- Radxa ROCK 5B 8GB: $160 listed price, source ↗ (2026-10-17) Check price (affiliate slot)
- Radxa ROCK 5B+ 16GB: $135 listed price, source ↗ (2026-10-17) Check price (affiliate slot)
- Indiedroid Nova + heatsink, fan, eMMC: $199.95 sale price, source ↗ (2026-10-17) Check price (affiliate slot)
- ODROID-M2 w/ case, 64GB eMMC: $299.95 "from" price, source ↗ (2026-10-17) Check price (affiliate slot)
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