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Q4_K_M vs Q8_0 for your local LLM: what I actually notice (2026)

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I spent a solid three months refusing to quantize anything out of sheer stubbornness. Full precision or nothing. It was dumb. A 7B model at full float needed about 14GB of VRAM, my GPU has 8GB, so I was watching the thing spill into CPU RAM and crawl. Then I actually read what Q4_K_M meant and stop…

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  1. 2026-09-15 13:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Q4_K_M vs Q8_0 for your local LLM: what I actually notice (2026)

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