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Higher quants are so much better

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9 May
Higher quants are so much better
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
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20 May
Let’s talk quants of Gemma and Qwen - 16 vs Q8 vs Q4 - any experiences?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Some people say they’d never go under Q8, and others say they find Q3 acceptable! What’s your take?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
11 May
Why is my Qwen3.6-35B-A3B so much dumber than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm genuinely unsure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the model is just worse, despite the community enthusiasm. I tend to use it with pi

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
16 Apr
m5 pro 64gb worth it for local agents or wait?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am currently on an m3 mbp with 24gb ram. For regular python and django work the machine is perfect and i have no need to upgrade for speed. but

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
19 May
Why use Quants other than Unsloth

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I see lot of people prefer to stick different quants, like bartowski, LMstudio, gglm-org and other ones</p> <p>but why if unsloth does the job

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
13 Apr
FYI, Step 3.5 Flash has better perf and context is 1/4 the price in llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
2 Apr
I benchmarked quants of Qwen 3 .6b from q2-q8, here's the results:

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sa4lzt/i_benchmarked_quants_of_qwen_3_6b_from_q2q8_heres/"> <img alt="I benchmarked quants of Qwen 3 .6b

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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