Model reference · open weights
Skywork-R1V is an open-weight language model from Skywork. Skywork-R1V-38B (BF16) weighs 76.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 4× RTX 4090 24 GB.
Summary of the Skywork/Skywork-R1V-38B model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Skywork |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-03-17 |
| Parameters | 38.4B |
| VRAM | 76.8 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … H100 80 GB 8 smaller cards | — | — | — | |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 4 | 1 | 37K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 10 | 2 | 87K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 25 | 6 | all 128K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 42 | 10 | all 128K | 176 GB |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 3 | — | 29K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 3 | — | 30K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 17 | 4 | all 128K | 31.0 GB a card |
| 2× H100 80 GB tensor parallel | 30 | 7 | all 128K | 78.1 GB a card |
| 2× A100 80 GB tensor parallel | 35 | 8 | all 128K | 78.2 GB a card |
| 4× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 42 | 10 | all 128K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB tensor parallel | 45 | 11 | all 128K | 93.8 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81.1 GB | 87.6 GB |
| 5 | 89.7 GB | 122 GB |
| 8 | 96.1 GB | 148 GB |
| 16 | 113 GB | 216 GB |
| 32 | 148 GB | 354 GB |
| 64 | 216 GB | 629 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
| Model Name | Vision Encoder | Language Model | HF Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skywork-R1V-38B | InternViT-6B-448px-V2_5 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | 🤗 Link |
| Skywork-R1V2-38B | InternViT-6B-448px-V2_5 | Qwen/QwQ-32B | 🤗 Link |
git clone https://github.com/SkyworkAI/Skywork-R1V.git
cd skywork-r1v/inference
conda create -n r1-v python=3.10
conda activate r1-v
bash setup.sh
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1" python inference_with_transformers.py \
--model_path path \
--image_paths image1_path \
--question "your question"
If you use Skywork-R1V in your research, please cite:
@misc{peng2025skyworkr1vpioneeringmultimodal,
title={Skywork R1V: Pioneering Multimodal Reasoning with Chain-of-Thought},
author={Yi Peng and Peiyu Wang and Xiaokun Wang and Yichen Wei and Jiangbo Pei and Weijie Qiu and Ai Jian and Yunzhuo Hao and Jiachun Pan and Tianyidan Xie and Li Ge and Rongxian Zhuang and Xuchen Song and Yang Liu and Yahui Zhou},
year={2025},
eprint={2504.05599},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05599},
}
This project is released under an open-source license.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.