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walrus01yesterday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Q2 quantization is basically giving a capable model a lobotomy. It will not accurately represent how smart or capable something like qwen 3.8 27B in Q8 will be.


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zenopraxtoday at 1:34 AM

Sure, but this is true for all lossy compression (audio, images, etc.)

Given 16GB of VRAM, what will give me the best experience in OpenCode? Currently using Qwen3.8_Q_3