DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash runs on consumer hardware as users report silent endpoint swap to -1017 variant
Hobbyists report DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash running at usable speeds on a single AMD MI50 and a 5070Ti, while telemetry claims providers silently replaced the cloud model with a -1017 version in mid-October. Unsloth and ISTA released competing quants of the -1017 model with disputed benchmark results.
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Timeline · 5 reports
- 2026-10-30 16:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
ISTA DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 GSQ-RCO quants comparison - 2026-10-30 13:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Dynamic v3.1 Unsloth GGUFs - 2026-10-30 00:04 · r/LocalLLM
Deepseek v4.1 Flash 28.8Tk/s average on 5070Ti 9950X 128gb ram - 2026-10-29 17:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
Why you can't trust cloud API endpoints: 40 days of coding-agent telemetry showing the exact day providers silently overwrote deepseek-v4.1-flash with -1017 ("faster execution, shorter answers" = 3x more swearing and 6.7x more model switches) - 2026-10-29 08:26 · r/LocalLLM
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (2-bit, 258 GB) running on a single AMD MI50 32GB: ~23 tok/s decode, ~170 tok/s prefill (Strata + a handful of HIP patches)