alt Hacker NewsAs this is a dense model and it's pretty sizable, 4-bit quantization can be nearly lossless. With that, you can run this on a 3090/4090/5090. You can probably even go FP8 with 5090 (though there will be tradeoffs). Probably ~70 tok/s on a 5090 and roughly half that on a 4090/3090. With speculative decoding, you can get even faster (2-3x I'd say). Pretty amazing what you can get locally.
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zozbot234 • yesterday at 3:48 PM
4-bit quantization is almost never lossless especially for agentic work, it's the lowest end of what's reasonable. It's advocated as preferable to a model with fewer parameters that's been quantized with more precision.
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binary132 • yesterday at 3:42 PM
That seems awfully speculative without at least some anecdata to back it up.
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> As this is a dense model and it's pretty sizable, 4-bit quantization can be nearly lossless
The 4-bit quants are far from lossless. The effects show up more on longer context problems.
> You can probably even go FP8 with 5090 (though there will be tradeoffs)
You cannot run these models at 8-bit on a 32GB card because you need space for context. Typically it would be Q5 on a 32GB card to fit context lengths needed for anything other than short answers.