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Re: quant choices for 70B local - vrambandit - 10-19-2026

Good point. I don't think your conclusion is far off. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.


Re: quant choices for 70B local - vrambandit - 10-19-2026

Can you fill in a bit more context? Is this local-only or are you routing anything externally?


Re: quant choices for 70B local - torchshed - 10-19-2026

Did a small comparison this afternoon. On Threadripper box with TensorRT-LLM, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.


Re: quant choices for 70B local - cudaworks - 10-19-2026

What exact setup are you running? What model, what runtime, and roughly what context size?


Re: quant choices for 70B local - vrambandit - 10-19-2026

What exact setup are you running? Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?