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Don't Sleep on EXL3 Quants

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I'm running Muse Glimmer 30B EXL3-SC 3.00bpw H4, fully resident on my 12GB VRAM GPU at 100K context with Q8\_O KV cache. It's a joy to use a dense 30B model at this size and still get \~30 tok/s on a VRAM-constrained laptop. It's supposed to be only slightly worse than the official 17GB K-quant at…

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  1. 2026-08-30 13:56 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Don't Sleep on EXL3 Quants

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