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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash gains traction with local users amid quantization and hardware experiments

Community reports show DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash running on consumer rigs and DGX Spark clusters, with NVIDIA releasing an NVFP4 quantization that cuts 75 GB and ISTA shipping a 1-bit 763B coder variant.

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Timeline · 8 reports

  1. 2026-11-02 15:57 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Unsloth vs GSQ-RCO - 512K context DeepSeek-V4.1 GGUF benchmarks Terminal Bench
  2. 2026-11-02 14:33 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Release] ISTA DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 GSQ-RCO Coder: a 763B model at 1 bit per parameter
  3. 2026-11-02 05:37 · r/LocalLLM
    Getting incredible results with a single RTX 3090ti and 128gb of ram. Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (35 tok/s decode) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (130 tok/s decode)
  4. 2026-11-01 21:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Getting incredible results with a single RTX 3090ti and 128gb of ram. Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (35 tok/s decode) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (130 tok/s decode)
  5. 2026-11-01 12:33 · AlphaSignal
    NVIDIA Shrinks DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by 75 GiB With Almost No Quality Loss
  6. 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
  7. 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?
  8. 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

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