alt Hacker NewsLove this for the folks with 16gb graphics cards - 3.8 27b has been incredible but not quite runnable on anything less than 32gb - will try loading this up on my 16gb intel b50 and see how it goes - not sure these quants can be accelerated by the XPU cores yet but maybe in time!
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kadoban • yesterday at 9:53 PM
You can run the ~4 bit quant(s) on 24gb, if you're not _too_ picky on context size.
This will hopefully be better, though it'd be a _very_ surprising increase in performace at the size they say. Would love to see more about how it benchmarks.
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djkoolaide • today at 1:31 AM
Tried it today on a B70 and couldn't get anything usable out of it.
Prism's llama.cpp fork only has the kernels for CUDA, CPU and Vulkan. No SYCL at all :(
I run qwen 27b on an old-ass 16gb gpu. It’s very possible using unsloth 2bit and 3bit quants, tho there are a bunch of interesting quants that let you run closer to 4bit on 16gb. This article that’s currently also on the front page mentions a bunch of them while discussing their own quant https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3.8-27B/