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<strong>Smarter</strong> Local LLMs, Lower <strong>VRAM</strong> Costs – All Without Sacrificing Quality, Thanks to Google’s New QAT Optimization

Smarter Local LLMs, Lower VRAM Costs – All Without Sacrificing Quality, Thanks to Google’s New QAT Optimization

What makes QAT particularly impressive is its ability to maintain model quality despite the dramatic reduction in precision. According to Google, they’ve reduced the perplexity drop by 54% (using llama.cpp perplexity evaluation) when quantizing down to Q4_0.

Latest LLM hardware news

Apr 19, 2025

Smarter Local LLMs, Lower VRAM Costs – All Without Sacrificing Quality, Thanks to Google’s New QAT Optimization

<strong>Smarter</strong> Local LLMs, Lower <strong>VRAM</strong> Costs – All Without Sacrificing Quality, Thanks to Google’s New QAT Optimization
VRAM
Apr 17, 2025

Arc GPUs Paired with Open-Source AI Playground Offer Flexible Local AI Setup

Arc GPUs Paired with Open-Source AI Playground Offer Flexible Local AI Setup
GPU
Apr 16, 2025

RTX 5060 Ti for Local LLMs: It’s Finally Here – But Is It Available, and Is the Price Still Right?

RTX 5060 Ti for Local LLMs: It’s Finally Here – But Is It Available, and Is the Price Still Right?
Apr 15, 2025

Dual RTX 5060 Ti: The Ultimate Budget Solution for 32GB VRAM LLM Inference at $858

Dual RTX 5060 Ti: The Ultimate Budget Solution for 32GB VRAM LLM Inference at $858
GPU
Apr 15, 2025

55% More Bandwidth! RTX 5060 Ti Set to Demolish 4060 Ti for Local LLM Performance

55% More Bandwidth! RTX 5060 Ti Set to Demolish 4060 Ti for Local LLM Performance
GPU
Apr 8, 2025

AMD Targets Faster Local LLMs: Ryzen AI 300 Hybrid NPU+iGPU Approach Aims to Accelerate Prompt Processing

AMD Targets Faster Local LLMs: Ryzen AI 300 Hybrid NPU+iGPU Approach Aims to Accelerate Prompt Processing
Inference, Strix Halo, Unified memory
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GPUs

Apr 17, 2025

Arc GPUs Paired with Open-Source AI Playground Offer Flexible Local AI Setup

Arc GPUs Paired with Open-Source AI Playground Offer Flexible Local AI Setup
GPU
Apr 15, 2025

Dual RTX 5060 Ti: The Ultimate Budget Solution for 32GB VRAM LLM Inference at $858

Dual RTX 5060 Ti: The Ultimate Budget Solution for 32GB VRAM LLM Inference at $858
GPU
Apr 15, 2025

55% More Bandwidth! RTX 5060 Ti Set to Demolish 4060 Ti for Local LLM Performance

55% More Bandwidth! RTX 5060 Ti Set to Demolish 4060 Ti for Local LLM Performance
GPU

Inference

Apr 8, 2025

AMD Targets Faster Local LLMs: Ryzen AI 300 Hybrid NPU+iGPU Approach Aims to Accelerate Prompt Processing

AMD Targets Faster Local LLMs: Ryzen AI 300 Hybrid NPU+iGPU Approach Aims to Accelerate Prompt Processing
Inference, Strix Halo, Unified memory
Apr 6, 2025

Meta Releases Llama 4: Here’s the Hardware You’ll Need to Run It Yourself

Meta Releases Llama 4: Here’s the Hardware You’ll Need to Run It Yourself
Inference
Apr 4, 2025

Will the New DDR5-9000 and DDR5-8000 Memory Unlock Faster Local LLM Performance?

Will the New DDR5-9000 and DDR5-8000 Memory Unlock Faster Local LLM Performance?
Inference

Apple Silicon

Apr 7, 2025

Llama 4 Scout & Maverick Benchmarks on Mac: How Fast Is Apple’s M3 Ultra with These LLMs?

Llama 4 Scout & Maverick Benchmarks on Mac: How Fast Is Apple’s M3 Ultra with These LLMs?
Benchmarks, Mac
Mar 30, 2025

Apple Killer? New AMD LLM Capable PC Costs Half the Price of MacBook Pro!

Apple Killer? New AMD LLM Capable PC Costs Half the Price of MacBook Pro!
Inference, Mac, Strix Halo, Unified memory
Mar 27, 2025

14-Minute Wait?! $10K Mac Studio Crawls with DeepSeek 671B + llama.cpp

14-Minute Wait?! $10K Mac Studio Crawls with DeepSeek 671B + llama.cpp
Inference, Mac, Prompt processing