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TurboQuant, RotorQuant stay fork-only

TurboQuant is real and moving fast, but the usable path today is still a forked llama.cpp build, not stock upstream. The Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-TQ3_4S model card says it needs a public TurboQuant runtime fork and shows flags for fitting the 35B MoE model on a 16GB card.

// ANALYSIS

This is promising, but not turnkey. If you want the newest quant tricks right now, expect to pin a fork, match model-specific flags, and tolerate breakage while the ecosystem settles.

  • Upstream llama.cpp has active TurboQuant discussion, but the working implementations are still being carried in forks/branches and described as experimental.
  • The Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-TQ3_4S card is explicit: 12.4 GiB GGUF, TurboQuant runtime fork required, and recommended launch settings use `-ctk q4_0 -ctv tq3_0 -fa on`.
  • That makes the 5060 Ti 16GB target plausible, but only if you stay within the exact build/runtime combo the model author tested.
  • For day-to-day reliability, a conventional high-quality GGUF quant on mainline llama.cpp is still the safer choice; TurboQuant is more of a bleeding-edge capacity play.
// TAGS
llminferencegpuself-hostedopen-sourceturboquantllama-cppqwen3.6

DISCOVERED

2h ago

2026-04-19

PUBLISHED

4h ago

2026-04-19

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

bonesoftheancients