The Local LLM Matrix: Best Models & Quants by VRAM Tier (<=16GB – 256GB+)

[Burhan]

Another thread that would be good for readers to reference:

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-spec…