{"id":5503,"date":"2026-09-27T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/format-gptq-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:45:08","slug":"format-gptq-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-gptq-en\/","title":{"rendered":"GPTQ Model Format Explained: Supported Engines and Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Is GPTQ?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>GPTQ<\/strong> is a post-training method, published in 2022, for quantizing an already-trained LLM to about 3\u20134 bits. It feeds a small amount of calibration text through the model and rounds the weights one layer at a time so that <strong>the error introduced by quantization is compensated by the weights not yet quantized<\/strong>. On Hugging Face, GPTQ models come as repositories with <code>GPTQ<\/code> in the name (containing <code>.safetensors<\/code> files).<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One of the first widely used 4-bit formats for GPUs.<\/strong> It became a standard way to fit a large model on a single GPU, and quantized builds exist for many models, including older ones.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Broad engine support.<\/strong> vLLM, SGLang and Transformers load it. In vLLM&#8217;s compatibility table, GPTQ covers a wide range of NVIDIA GPU generations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Choice of bit width and group size.<\/strong> Repositories may offer 4-bit and 3-bit builds with different group sizes (such as <code>128g<\/code>); smaller means a smaller file and more quality loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tips for Running It Locally<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It assumes an NVIDIA GPU.<\/strong> On CPU or a Mac, choose GGUF or MLX. Ollama and LM Studio (llama.cpp-based) cannot load it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It overlaps with AWQ.<\/strong> Both quantize weights only to 4 bits for GPUs. If a model has both, choose by your engine&#8217;s support and by the evaluations the quantizer publishes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The tooling moved to GPTQModel.<\/strong> AutoGPTQ is no longer developed, and vLLM&#8217;s documentation points to GPTQModel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2210.17323\">the GPTQ paper (arXiv:2210.17323)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vllm.ai\/en\/latest\/features\/quantization\/\">vLLM&#8217;s quantization documentation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ModelCloud\/GPTQModel\">the ModelCloud\/GPTQModel README<\/a> (all as of 2026-09-27).<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Our Coverage and Data<\/h2>\n<p>Local Model Watch has published 1 article(s) on models available in GPTQ: 0 where the repository itself is in GPTQ, and 1 where we found a GPTQ build of the model. The lists below only include builds we have checked (the publisher&#8217;s organization and well-known quantizers); a model missing here may still have a GPTQ build elsewhere. Part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/formats-en\/\">model format index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Main Engines That Load This Format<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Engine<\/th>\n<th>Overview<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/engine-vllm-en\/\">vLLM<\/a><\/td>\n<td>High-throughput LLM serving engine built around PagedAttention. Handles concurrent requests and quantized weights (AWQ \/ GPTQ \/ FP8) and is widely used on server-class GPUs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/engine-sglang-en\/\">SGLang<\/a><\/td>\n<td>LLM serving framework known for RadixAttention prefix caching and structured output. A common alternative to vLLM for serving.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Models Available in GPTQ<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<p class=\"lmw-table-hint\" style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.85em;opacity:0.7;\">\u2192 Scroll horizontally to see all columns<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Published<\/th>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th>Where to get it<\/th>\n<th>Quantizations<\/th>\n<th>Smallest VRAM tier<\/th>\n<th>Article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2026-09-08<\/td>\n<td>openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B-GPTQ\">openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B-GPTQ<\/a><\/td>\n<td>GPTQ<\/td>\n<td>4GB<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/minicpm5-2b-released\/\">MiniCPM5-2B On-Device Model Strong in Code and Math: 4GB+ VRAM<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;Smallest VRAM tier&#8221; is the smallest tier in the requirements table of each article (for other builds, of those builds; for image, video and audio models, always the article&#8217;s own table, which counts every component). Leave headroom for context length.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last updated 2026-09-08 (JST). The explanation at the top of this page was written with the help of AI from the primary sources it cites. The tables under &#8220;Our Coverage and Data&#8221; are assembled by code from our article log.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is GPTQ? GPTQ is a post-training method, published in 2022, for quantizing an already-trained LLM to about 3\u20134 bits. It feeds a small amount of calibration text through the model and rounds the weights one layer at a time so that the error introduced by quantization is compensated by the weights not yet quantized. 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