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Blackwell quantisation on my own card

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Quantising a small model down from FP16 to Q4_K_M on my RTX 5070 Ti more than doubled throughput and cut VRAM by two thirds, with output that stayed 98% similar to the full-precision baseline by embedding distance. Both registered gates passed. The interesting part turned out to be where the remain…

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  1. 2026-10-28 06:13 · DEV Community — AI
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