DeepSeek 2.52-bit quantization holds up surprisingly well in testing
nomorebuttsplz · reddit · 2026-08-24
User testing found that a heavily quantized 2.52-bit EXL3 version of DeepSeek Flash performs surprisingly well compared to a slower MXFP4 version, showing no struggle in coding tasks and handling 200k+ context lengths. The post asks if any specific tasks are more fragile to quantization.
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