best small quant that still feels smart

[paperrunner]

Thought I'd post a small recipe because a lot of threads ask similar things.

Just sharing a setup that ended up working reasonably well: Llama, TensorRT-LLM, M3 Max, with a lot of attention on long context.

Feel free to tear it apart if you see something dumb.

For context, I'm not chasing leaderboard numbers. I mostly want the system to feel consistent day to day.

[vramport]

I think the bottleneck is somewhere else. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model. Could be a workload difference, but I wouldn't generalize too fast from one setup.

[benchplease]

that fixed it for me too.