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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash update sparks quant benchmarks and local-run performance reports

Community reports show DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 running on consumer hardware, with Unsloth releasing dynamic GGUFs and ISTA publishing differing quant comparisons. Users also note a silent endpoint change and continued use of the older 0731 version.

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Timeline · 6 reports

  1. 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?
  2. 2026-10-30 16:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
    ISTA DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 GSQ-RCO quants comparison
  3. 2026-10-30 13:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Dynamic v3.1 Unsloth GGUFs
  4. 2026-10-30 00:04 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek v4.1 Flash 28.8Tk/s average on 5070Ti 9950X 128gb ram
  5. 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)
  6. 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)

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