7900XTX 24GB vram, can finally fit Q6K+MTP with Qwen 3.6 27B at 131k context
Summary
A guide on optimizing VRAM usage on an AMD 7900XTX to run a 27B Qwen model with Q6K quantization and 131k context by compiling llama.cpp with OpenBLAS and CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS, and using kvcache quantization at q5_0/q4_0.
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