Comment by terhechte

I just loaded two models of different quants into LM Studio:

qwen 2.5 coder 1.5b @ q4_k_m: 1.21 GB memory

qwen 2.5 coder 1.5b @ q8: 1.83 GB memory

I always assumed this to be the case (also because of the smaller download sizes) but never really thought about it.