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Help me understand gguf size/ctx size

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Let's say I have 2x 16Gb GPUs and I want to run Qwen3.8 27B. Monitor is ran by the integrated GPU so both 16Gb GPUs are almost fully free. I load the UD-Q4_K_S on one card at 15.4Gb. I then load the context on the other card? Would that be the most efficient way? Or should I aim for higher quants t…

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