hey, I’m the author. That box has 384gb, but loading the model “only” uses about 80gb.

any reason you went with q8 over q4? I'm wondering if q4 would run noticeably faster or not.

	▲	superkuh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Such a system is RAM bandwidth limited and not compute limited Switching to q4 from q8 would decrease the amount of data needing to be loaded by half. The token generation rate would nearly double. But generally if you can do q6 or q8 and you have enough RAM you really should. Even if it's slower.