---

license: apache-2.0

base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B

base_model_relation: quantized

library_name: gguf

pipeline_tag: text-generation

tags:

• gguf
• llama.cpp
• dashq
• quantized

---

!DASH-Q

Qwen3-8B - DASH-Q 2-bit GGUF

llama.cpp GGUF files of Qwen/Qwen3-8B quantized with

DASH-Q, at several 2-bit-class sizes. Every file uses only standard

llama.cpp tensor types (no tensor above 4 bits) and loads in any recent llama.cpp build.

| File | Type | Size | Bits / weight |

| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Qwen3-8B-DASHQ-IQ2_XXS.gguf | IQ2_XXS | 2.61 GB | 2.55 |

| Qwen3-8B-DASHQ-IQ2_XS.gguf | IQ2_XS | 2.95 GB | 2.88 |

| Qwen3-8B-DASHQ-IQ2_M.gguf | IQ2_M | 3.12 GB | 3.04 |

| Qwen3-8B-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf | Q2_K_XL | 3.35 GB | 3.27 |

Perplexity (lower is better)

| Type | Model | Size | WikiText-2 | C4 |

| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| IQ2_XXS | llama.cpp IQ2_XXS (imatrix) | 2.49 GB | 12.04 | 19.80 |

| IQ2_XXS | unsloth UD-IQ2_XXS | 2.61 GB | 12.42 | 19.99 |

| IQ2_XXS | DASH-Q IQ2_XXS | 2.61 GB | 11.11 | 18.50 |

| IQ2_XS | llama.cpp IQ2_XS (imatrix) | 2.70 GB | 10.54 | 17.39 |

| IQ2_XS | DASH-Q IQ2_XS | 2.95 GB | 9.82 | 16.18 |

| IQ2_M | llama.cpp IQ2_M (imatrix) | 3.05 GB | 9.73 | 15.87 |

| IQ2_M | unsloth UD-IQ2_M | 3.11 GB | 9.70 | 15.79 |

| IQ2_M | DASH-Q IQ2_M | 3.12 GB | 9.43 | 15.48 |

| Q2_K_XL | llama.cpp Q2_K (imatrix) | 3.28 GB | 9.44 | 15.48 |

| Q2_K_XL | unsloth UD-Q2_K_XL | 3.50 GB | 9.20 | 15.08 |

| Q2_K_XL | DASH-Q Q2_K_XL | 3.35 GB | 9.14 | 15.10 |

llama-perplexity, context 2048; WikiText-2 test, C4 validation (256 x 2048 tokens).

Usage

llama-cli -m Qwen3-8B-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf -ngl 99 -c 8192

License

Inherits the license of the base model (Qwen/Qwen3-8B).