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Has anyone tried GSQ RCO Qwen3.8 flash next IQ3_s vs deepseek v4.1 1017 IQ1_M?

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Has anyone compared them? Is deepseek any better with such a heavy quantization?

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  1. 2026-10-30 00:04 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek v4.1 Flash 28.8Tk/s average on 5070Ti 9950X 128gb ram
  2. 2026-10-29 18:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Upgraded from RX 9070 XT (16GB, ROCm) to RTX 5090 (32GB, CUDA) on CachyOS Linux — 236 tok/s Decode & 6,272 tok/s Prefill on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (IQ3_S) in Strata
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 2026-10-29 03:11 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next IQ3_XXS - 60GB total memory, 50-70tps, very impressed.
  6. 2026-10-28 00:39 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at 41 tok/s on one 3090
  7. 2026-10-27 11:51 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Comparing ISTA-DASLab's DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF 2.25bpw against the official API
  8. 2026-10-27 06:31 · r/LocalLLM
    Has anyone tried GSQ RCO Qwen3.8 flash next IQ3_s vs deepseek v4.1 1017 IQ1_M?

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