# AWQ vs GPTQ vs BitNet — what's the difference? | Rudrite Research

> Source: <https://research.rudrite.com/compare/awq-vs-gptq-vs-bitnet>
> Published: 2026-06-14 00:00:00+00:00

# AWQ vs GPTQ vs BitNet

Three ways to shrink an LLM — scale the salient weights, compensate the rounding with second-order math, or train ternary so the matmul becomes addition.

A clear, side-by-side comparison with examples — part of Rudrite Research.