Emmanuel Itakpe

@above_spec Love your exploration with ikllama Have you tried the llama.cpp fork that implemented turbo quant?

Quick update on the 35B / 8GB setup. Switched to IQ4_K_R4 — higher quality quant, without losing much speed — getting ~49tok/s through model's full native 262k context. And VRAM usage is low enough to keep a browser with multiple tabs open the whole time. 🧵

@Qusaismael @traumakom @above_spec Do you offload the experts to the CPU?

@traumakom @above_spec I run 3.6-35b-a3b on 9060XT, Q4_k_M, 14GB on the GPU, the rest offloaded to the CPU. you can do it with llama.cpp -ngl flag.

"You need a 24 GB GPU for serious local LLMs in 2026." Everyone repeats this. It's not true anymore. Just ran a 35B-parameter model on an RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB: • 41 tok/s at 16k context • 24 tok/s at 200k context Recipe + benchmarks below 🧵

@Qusaismael @traumakom @above_spec I run the IQ3_XXS quant so everything fits in vram (same 9060xt 16gb card) What context length do you specify and your tok/s? I average 80+

qwen 3.6 is the goat!!! 80+ tok/s for the MOE model is the sweet spot

@bigbrovar @pdbraide Good argument However, short daily commutes can serve as a good use case. If daily commutes never depletes the battery. Then it’s just the electric part that is being put to work (plus only a small fraction of fuel in the tank for efficiency) They can get fuel for longer trips

It just adds unnecessary complexity and inefficiency. On paper, Plugin Hybrid or Range Extended EV look like the best of both worlds, but in reality it’s a Frankenstein system. An EV with too little battery to stand alone, still hauling an engine + fuel. Or an ICE car burdened with a battery pack. You lose EV simplicity and low maintenance, while adding more complexity to an already complex ICE system. End result: a heavy car that’s inefficient at both.

I am not a fan of Plug-in Hybrid or Range extenders. It is either ICE or Pure electric for me. I can even manage classic non plugin hybrid.. You see those REEV? They make me wanna vomit.

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man I love what @wearegst are doing important and good work

Cooking for a professional chef… surely nothing can go wrong?

@financetechbro Nice! Good read, would love to see as it progresses 👍

@N0nNull It’s working as expected, removed Anthropic as fallback

@financetechbro Yeah I thought as much, would need about 24gb vram or so How is the qwen-2.5-7b faring so far? Is it useful for simple tasks, and when does it default to anthropic api key

@N0nNull I used LMStudio to download the model though it didn’t run due to how small my thinkpad is

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Microsoft killed the GPU mafia 🤯 They finally open-sourced their 1-bit LLM inference framework called bitnet.cpp. It lets you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. - 6.17x faster inference - 82.2% less energy on CPUs 100% Open Source.

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