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Model Quantization Guide: AWQ vs GPTQ vs GGUF for 4-Bit & 8-Bit Inference
Compress 70B parameter models from 140GB down to 38GB VRAM with Activation-aware Weight Quantization (AWQ) while preserving reasoning accuracy.
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AWQ vs GPTQ
AWQ protects the critical top 1% salient weight channels, maintaining near-lossless perplexity at 4-bit quantization.