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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash draws wave of local benchmarks, quants and hardware tests

Community reports benchmark DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 across consumer rigs, with Unsloth and ISTA releasing competing GGUF quants and NVIDIA shipping an NVFP4 version 75 GB smaller with matching benchmark results.

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Timeline · 7 reports

  1. 2026-11-01 12:33 · AlphaSignal
    NVIDIA Shrinks DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by 75 GiB With Almost No Quality Loss
  2. 2026-10-31 23:04 · r/OpenAI
    GPT-6.1 Terra one-shot a 3-level canvas game in 14 agent steps and 6.5 minutes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash needed 73 steps but came in cheaper on 96% cache hits
  3. 2026-10-31 06:16 · r/LocalLLM
    How many of you still do use DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with PolyStrata/Strata or its forks because DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is too big?
  4. 2026-10-31 05:32 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Lawyer with too many GPUs, part 3: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 2x DGX Spark + an old 3090 box. 2,600+ tok/s prefill to 256K, 322 tok/s structured output, full stack and raw data published
  5. 2026-10-30 16:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
    ISTA DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 GSQ-RCO quants comparison
  6. 2026-10-30 13:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Dynamic v3.1 Unsloth GGUFs
  7. 2026-10-30 00:04 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek v4.1 Flash 28.8Tk/s average on 5070Ti 9950X 128gb ram

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