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I don't get the qwen 3.8 flash next hype

My experience is based on running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next UD-Q4_K_XL on 4x 3090's Compared directly to Qwen 3.8 27b Q8 it is not even close. To add to this, strata results were even worse than llama.cpp even thought generation speeds were faster. I left 1 run for 4 hours in strata and it did not produc…

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  1. 2026-10-19 00:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs
  2. 2026-10-17 21:30 · r/LocalLLM
    Testing Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Different Coding Tools
  3. 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table?
  4. 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  5. 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  6. 2026-10-17 10:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Strata - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - boosting decoding speed Tip
  7. 2026-10-17 09:23 · r/LocalLLM
    Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh
  8. 2026-10-17 08:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Strata + Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: fast, but what's it costing in quality?
  9. 2026-10-17 02:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
    As we know, currently Qwen-flash-next is the local king, but is it better than opus 4.6 max in coding?
  10. 2026-10-17 01:44 · r/LocalLLM
    6900xt and 32gb ram Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (STRATA) 40+ tk/s
  11. 2026-10-17 01:03 · r/LocalLLM
    $400 PC - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next IQ3 at 20 tok/s
  12. 2026-10-16 22:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I don't get the qwen 3.8 flash next hype

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