LLM Quantization: 92% Cheaper Inference — Ticvic Case Study
AI · Optimization

The same AI. 92% cheaper to run.

FP32 language models quantized to INT8 — GPU-class intelligence on standard CPUs.

92%
Cost reduction
6x
Faster inference
CPU-only
Deployment
The ClientAFS & PathMetrics
01

The Challenge

Full-precision LLMs were too heavy for real-time use.

$300/hr compute for unquantized models
Up to 3.4 minutes per query — unusable in real time
No path to edge or low-resource deployment
02

What We Built

A quantization pipeline converting FP32 LLMs into INT8 small language models.

Model size and hardware demands cut without meaningful accuracy loss
Inference moved from GPUs to standard CPUs
Edge deployment on 16GB RAM (vs 80GB VRAM previously)
03

The Stack

PythonFP32→INT8 quantization toolchainCPU inference
04

The Results

Numbers from production operation — not projections.

92%
Inference cost reduction ($300 → $24/hr)
6x
Faster inference (6.2s → 0.96s)
16GB
RAM instead of 80GB VRAM
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