alt Hacker NewsI think the future should be efficient quantization which can make model with the same level as Qwen 3.8 27b now accessible from our laptop.
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throwa356262 • today at 8:01 AM
The future is already here :)
These 3bit ISTA quants of qwen are supposed to be 95% as accurate as the full model and runs moothly on laptops:
https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF
There are multiple independent tests of this on YouTube.
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This is mostly a memory bandwidth issue. Qwen 3.8 27b and the related Bonsai 2 27B run on my M5 Max laptop with 36GB of ram. It’s a little slow due to my specific model having lower memory bandwidth than higher end models with more ram and cores. MoE models perform better here and expert streaming engines can allow larger than memory models to run.