I have an answer! Qwen Flash Next IQ2 IS better than Q8 of 27B (for me).
I asked a while ago if it would be worth it to try and run qwen flash next at q2 since I can only really fit it and nothing bigger, but I can run Q8 of 27B. Everyone told me it’s either a toss up or Q8 would obliterate it. Not the case. Now this is subjective BUT for complex, annoying, and super su…
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- 2026-10-24 23:53 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on 9060 XT 16GB - 2026-10-24 15:21 · r/LocalLLaMA
8 GB GPU, 262K context 3.5 BPW Qwen-Flash-Next Coder 70 T/s using llama.cpp - 2026-10-23 16:16 · r/LocalLLaMA
agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Gyro-Coder-GGUF · Hugging Face - 2026-10-23 15:41 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Gyro Coder is out! - 2026-10-23 03:56 · r/LocalLLaMA
Deepseek V4.1-1017 - doing okay on RDNA2/3 + DDR4 - 2026-10-22 23:47 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (129 GB) is better than 2.6 bpw DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (187 GB + 203 GB Engram) - 2026-10-22 15:27 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Q4) got stuck on this loop for hours. I wonder if this is the AI equivalent of having a nightmare and not being able to wake up - 2026-10-22 03:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
What's your favorite medium to large (~50-150b params) MOE model? Aside from Qwen flash next. - 2026-10-22 03:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
I have an answer! Qwen Flash Next IQ2 IS better than Q8 of 27B (for me).