Comment by ekojs

> You cannot run these models at 8-bit on a 32GB card because you need space for context

You probably can actually. Not saying that it would be ideal but it can fit entirely in VRAM (if you make sure to quantize the attention layers). KV cache quantization and not loading the vision tower would help quite a bit. Not ideal for long context, but it should be very much possible.

I addressed the lossless claim in another reply but I guess it really depends on what the model is used for. For my usecases, it's nearly lossless I'd say.