> How hard would it be to systematically evaluate the different quantizations? E.g. on the Aider benchmark that you used in the past?
Very hard. $$$
The benchmarks are not cheap to run. It'll cost a lot to run them for each quant of each model.
Very hard. $$$
The benchmarks are not cheap to run. It'll cost a lot to run them for each quant of each model.
Assume AWS spot say $20/hr B200 for 8 GPUs, then $20 ish per quant, so assuming benchmark is on BF16, 8bit, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 bits then 7 ish tests so $140 per model ish to $420 ish/hr. Time wise 7 hours to 1 day ish.
We could run them after a model release which might work as well.
This is also on 1 benchmark.