Dwarfstar's Bespoke Quants Run Qwen Fast on a 96GB M3 Ultra
TheRealJesus2 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A Reddit user reports early experience with Dwarfstar (dwarfstar.sh), which offers clever quantization techniques bespoke to a handful of models running on its software. Running Qwen 3 8B (next) on a 96GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio, they find it fast and solid with memory headroom to spare — "kinda blown away" — and ask whether others have tried it.
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