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This is one of the "smartest" models you can fit on a 24GB GPU now, with no offloading and very little quantization loss. It feels big and insightful, like a better (albeit dry) Llama 3.3 70B with thinking, and with more STEM world knowledge than QwQ 32B, but comfortably fits thanks the new exl3 quantization!

Quantization Loss

You need to use a backend that support exl3, like (at the moment) text-gen-web-ui or (soon) TabbyAPI.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

^ what was said, not supported yet, though you can give it a shot theoretically.

Basically exl3 means you can run 32B models, totally on GPU without a ton of quantization loss, if you can get it working on your computer. But exl2/exl3 is less popular largely because it’s PyTorch based, hence more finicky to setup (no GGUF single files, no Macs, no easy install, especially on AMD).