Ollama quantization: Q4 vs Q8 vs fp16
Pick an Ollama quantization with arithmetic instead of guesswork: what q4_K_M, q8_0 and fp16 cost in RAM, and where the quality actually drops.
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Run Qwen 3.8 27B on a VPS With Ollama
There is no Qwen 3.8 on Ollama yet. Here is the arithmetic for running the 27B tag that does exist on a CPU-only VPS, and what fits in 8 to 64 GB.