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KV cache quant benchmarks: q5 & q6 are underrated, q8/q4 is bad, TCQ has a niche

Via r/LocalLlama
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 · 3:42PM
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Here's my article with 38 quant pairs thoroughly benchmarked in KLD with 3 different Qwen 3.6 27B configs: Q5_K_S + 64k context, IQ4_XS + 64k context, IQ4_XS + 128k context. This allows us to track not only how cache quantizations affects the precision in a vacuum, but also how it interacts with noi

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