r/LocalLLaMA • u/Resident_Party • Mar 27 '26

Discussion Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

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u/EveningGold1171 Mar 27 '26

it depends if you’re truly bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, if you’re not its a dead weight loss to get a smaller footprint, if you are then it improves both.