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Community tests Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on consumer hardware

Users report running the 125B MoE model on mid-tier GPUs using engines like Basalt and Radiance, achieving high inference speeds and exploring vision capabilities.

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Timeline · 11 reports

  1. 2026-10-15 04:25 · r/LocalLLM
    My 5060ti 16GB setup (Qwen3.8 27b vs Qwen Flash Next)
  2. 2026-10-15 02:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Did someone use/try the Qwen flash 3.8 next "coder" model on some work?
  3. 2026-10-14 22:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next compared to GLM 5.3 Flash
  4. 2026-10-14 21:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    176 t/s decode and 6,450 t/s prefill with Q4 Qwen-3.8 Flash-Next on 2xR9700 + 64GB DDR5 using Deadcode's Radiance engine
  5. 2026-10-14 20:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, DeepSeekV4 Flash and Time
  6. 2026-10-14 05:37 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on 24GB + 32GB ram?
  7. 2026-10-13 20:58 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 flash next - 12vram+32gb ram
  8. 2026-10-13 14:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Basalt: Fast Blackwell inference engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (and how we got vision for free)
  9. 2026-10-13 13:06 · r/LocalLLM
    GLM 5.3 flash vs Qwen Flash Next?
  10. 2026-10-13 09:57 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Based on advice from LocalLLama implemented a n+2 lookahead prediction for ssd streaming Qwen Flash Next - and it worked!
  11. 2026-10-13 09:11 · r/LocalLLM
    1080 + 1060 + 64gb ddr5 orca qwen 3.8 flash iq3_xxs in strata

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