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Nobody runs unquantized, there's literally no reason to. Q8 would be the largest anyone actually runs on consumer hardware for inference.


Halving the precision of the weights is not a free lunch...


Q8 is virtually lossless. The quantization is much more noticeable around Q4 and below. FP16->Q8 on consumer hardware is 2x the speed at ~99.99% the quality.


Any source that confirms the 99.99% quality?


I don't have a 'source' off-hand but I recommend reading up on it if you want to learn more. A lot of models on HF show a card demonstrating the different quality trade-offs between quants.




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