Qwen3 512k context via TurboQuant on Mac mini

How-To:

Model:

  hf download leuconoe/Qwen3-8B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen3-8B-Q5_K_M-Instruct.gguf --local-dir ~/.models/`

TurboQuant:

  cd ~
  git clone https://github.com/TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant.git
  cd llama-cpp-turboquant
  git checkout feature/turboquant-kv-cache

Build for M4:

  cmake -B build \
    -DGGML_METAL=ON \
    -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

  cmake --build build -j

llama-cli command:

  ~/llama-cpp-turboquant/build/bin/llama-cli \
    -m ~/.models/Qwen3-8B-Q5_K_M-Instruct.gguf \
    -ngl 999 \
    --cache-type-k turbo3 \
    --cache-type-v turbo3 \
    --chat-template chatml \
    -c 524288 \
    -n 624 \
    -p "Explain TuboQuant"