Original llama.cpp quant methods: q4_0, q4_1, q5_0, q5_1, q8_0
These are guaranteed to be compatible with any UIs, tools and libraries released since late May. They may be phased out soon, as they are largely superseded by the new k-quant methods.
These new quantisation methods are compatible with llama.cpp as of June 6th, commit 2d43387.
They are now also compatible with recent releases of text-generation-webui, KoboldCpp, llama-cpp-python, ctransformers, rustformers and most others. For compatibility with other tools and libraries, please check their documentation.
Explanation of the new k-quant methods
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The new methods available are:
GGML_TYPE_Q2_K - "type-1" 2-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weight. Block scales and mins are quantized with 4 bits. This ends up effectively using 2.5625 bits per weight (bpw)
GGML_TYPE_Q3_K - "type-0" 3-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 6 bits. This end up using 3.4375 bpw.
GGML_TYPE_Q4_K - "type-1" 4-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 8 blocks, each block having 32 weights. Scales and mins are quantized with 6 bits. This ends up using 4.5 bpw.
GGML_TYPE_Q5_K - "type-1" 5-bit quantization. Same super-block structure as GGML_TYPE_Q4_K resulting in 5.5 bpw
GGML_TYPE_Q6_K - "type-0" 6-bit quantization. Super-blocks with 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 8 bits. This ends up using 6.5625 bpw
GGML_TYPE_Q8_K - "type-0" 8-bit quantization. Only used for quantizing intermediate results. The difference to the existing Q8_0 is that the block size is 256. All 2-6 bit dot products are implemented for this quantization type.
Refer to the Provided Files table below to see what files use which methods, and how.
Provided files
Name
Quant method
Bits
Size
Max RAM required
Use case
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin
q2_K
2
2.80 GB
5.30 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for the attention.vw and feed_forward.w2 tensors, GGML_TYPE_Q2_K for the other tensors.
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q3_K_L.bin
q3_K_L
3
3.55 GB
6.05 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q5_K for the attention.wv, attention.wo, and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q3_K
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q3_K_M.bin
q3_K_M
3
3.23 GB
5.73 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for the attention.wv, attention.wo, and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q3_K
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q3_K_S.bin
q3_K_S
3
2.95 GB
5.45 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q3_K for all tensors
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin
q4_0
4
3.79 GB
6.29 GB
Original quant method, 4-bit.
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin
q4_1
4
4.21 GB
6.71 GB
Original quant method, 4-bit. Higher accuracy than q4_0 but not as high as q5_0. However has quicker inference than q5 models.
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin
q4_K_M
4
4.05 GB
6.55 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q6_K for half of the attention.wv and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q4_K
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q4_K_S.bin
q4_K_S
4
3.79 GB
6.29 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for all tensors
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin
q5_0
5
4.63 GB
7.13 GB
Original quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference.
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin
q5_1
5
5.06 GB
7.56 GB
Original quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference.
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q5_K_M.bin
q5_K_M
5
4.77 GB
7.27 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q6_K for half of the attention.wv and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q5_K
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q5_K_S.bin
q5_K_S
5
4.63 GB
7.13 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q5_K for all tensors
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin
q6_K
6
5.53 GB
8.03 GB
New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q8_K for all tensors - 6-bit quantization
guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin
q8_0
8
7.16 GB
9.66 GB
Original quant method, 8-bit. Almost indistinguishable from float16. High resource use and slow. Not recommended for most users.
Note: the above RAM figures assume no GPU offloading. If layers are offloaded to the GPU, this will reduce RAM usage and use VRAM instead.
How to run in llama.cpp
I use the following command line; adjust for your tastes and needs:
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m guanaco-7B.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "### Instruction: Write a story about llamas\n### Response:"
Change -t 10 to the number of physical CPU cores you have. For example if your system has 8 cores/16 threads, use -t 8.
Change -ngl 32 to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.
If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the -p <PROMPT> argument with -i -ins
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Thank you to all my generous patrons and donaters!
I've had a lot of people ask if they can contribute. I enjoy providing models and helping people, and would love to be able to spend even more time doing it, as well as expanding into new projects like fine tuning/training.
If you're able and willing to contribute it will be most gratefully received and will help me to keep providing more models, and to start work on new AI projects.
Donaters will get priority support on any and all AI/LLM/model questions and requests, access to a private Discord room, plus other benefits.
Patreon special mentions: Aemon Algiz, Dmitriy Samsonov, Nathan LeClaire, Trenton Dambrowitz, Mano Prime, David Flickinger, vamX, Nikolai Manek, senxiiz, Khalefa Al-Ahmad, Illia Dulskyi, Jonathan Leane, Talal Aujan, V. Lukas, Joseph William Delisle, Pyrater, Oscar Rangel, Lone Striker, Luke Pendergrass, Eugene Pentland, Sebastain Graf, Johann-Peter Hartman.
Thank you to all my generous patrons and donaters!
