Does DIY quantizing Qwen 3.8 still make sense when Unsloth UD 3.0 exists?
Professional-Tap177 · reddit · 2026-08-31
- The author recreated the community's smaller Qwen3.8-27B IQ4XS GGUF, swapping in the Unsloth imatrix, and published it on Hugging Face.
- Core question: with Unsloth Dynamic (UD) 3.0 quantization being notably better, is hand-rolling quantization with llama-quantize still worthwhile?
- Not yet benchmarked, but the author suspects it won't beat the UD 3.0 Q3 quants.
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