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Community tests Qwen 3.8 Flash Next performance and quality on local hardware

Users report Qwen 3.8 Flash Next achieving over 40 tokens per second on consumer hardware using Strata. Discussions focus on balancing decoding speed with output quality and comparing performance against other models.

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Timeline · 17 reports

  1. 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table?
  2. 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  3. 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  4. 2026-10-17 10:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Strata - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - boosting decoding speed Tip
  5. 2026-10-17 09:23 · r/LocalLLM
    Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh
  6. 2026-10-17 08:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Strata + Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: fast, but what's it costing in quality?
  7. 2026-10-17 02:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
    As we know, currently Qwen-flash-next is the local king, but is it better than opus 4.6 max in coding?
  8. 2026-10-17 01:44 · r/LocalLLM
    6900xt and 32gb ram Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (STRATA) 40+ tk/s
  9. 2026-10-17 01:03 · r/LocalLLM
    $400 PC - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next IQ3 at 20 tok/s
  10. 2026-10-16 22:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I don't get the qwen 3.8 flash next hype
  11. 2026-10-16 09:08 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen Flash Next potential SOTA Q2 nobody talks about
  12. 2026-10-16 09:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next potential SOTA Q2 nobody talks about
  13. 2026-10-15 04:25 · r/LocalLLM
    My 5060ti 16GB setup (Qwen3.8 27b vs Qwen Flash Next)
  14. 2026-10-15 02:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Did someone use/try the Qwen flash 3.8 next "coder" model on some work?
  15. 2026-10-14 22:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next compared to GLM 5.3 Flash
  16. 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
  17. 2026-10-14 20:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, DeepSeekV4 Flash and Time

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