mradermacher/falcon-40b-instruct-GGUF

About

gguf version of https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct

weighted/imatrix quants are available at https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/falcon-40b-instruct-i1-GGUF

Usage

If you are unsure how to use GGUF files, refer to one of TheBloke's READMEs for more details, including on how to concatenate multi-part files.

Provided Quants

(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)

Link	Type	Size/GB	Notes
GGUF	Q2_K	16.4
GGUF	IQ3_XS	18.4
GGUF	IQ3_S	18.9	beats Q3_K*
GGUF	Q3_K_S	18.9
GGUF	IQ3_M	19.8
GGUF	Q3_K_M	20.7	lower quality
GGUF	Q3_K_L	22.2
GGUF	IQ4_XS	23.4
GGUF	Q4_K_S	24.4	fast, recommended
GGUF	Q4_K_M	26.1	fast, recommended
GGUF	Q5_K_S	29.6
GGUF	Q5_K_M	31.2
GGUF	Q6_K	35.1	very good quality
GGUF	Q8_0	45.1	fast, best quality
PART 1 PART 2	SOURCE	83.8	source gguf, only provided when it was hard to come by

Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant types (lower is better):

And here are Artefact2's thoughts on the matter: https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9

FAQ / Model Request

See https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/model_requests for some answers to questions you might have and/or if you want some other model quantized.

Thanks

I thank my company, nethype GmbH, for letting me use its servers and providing upgrades to my workstation to enable this work in my free time.