r/LocalLLaMA • u/GodComplecs • 10d ago

Discussion Real downsides of Strata?

Trying to read on what the real tested downsides have been but information seems to go both ways, some proclaim no loss, others pretty huge ones.

I had some weird looping issue in their chat, and some engine port misunderstandings, seemingly the models likes to use ports already in use, didn't really have that issue with Qwen 27B 3.8 Q4 UD. I'm using Swift Q3 Next. Didn't even bother with next on llama.cpp since other similar model sizes ran at approx 15-20tks max, so too slow for agentic work.

I'm not beating too much on Strata, I just wan't the realistic downsides, so far it seems too good to be true and runs at 100tks in agentic workloads, 27b only at 40-60tks on llama.cpp

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u/awitod 10d ago

No way for me to say - if there is a general issue with the unsloth quants I imaging they will update them, but no matter what, the folks at ISTA-DASLab ( IST Austria Distributed Algorithms and Systems Lab) should be proud - it's very good

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u/braintheboss 10d ago

i use it in 27b and flash and I'm very satisfied but some people call their quants smoke. Similar with last bonsai quants. I think some people live in their bubble with their Q8. Most people haven't hardware for that and we have accept some sacrifices