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Locality of reference helped 94GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs at 68 tok/s on one RTX 5090

llama.cpp merged PR #29887 two weeks ago and I think it is the most interesting thing to land in local inference this year, so I went through the PR, the benchmarks and the review thread and wrote up how it actually works. Short version below, long version linked at the end. The problem Qwen3.8-Fla…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-10-23 15:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Muse Spark Open: Meta's 816B Open-Weight Model, Explained
  2. 2026-10-23 09:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Tested: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q6 vs NVFP4 on my RTX 5090 using Strata — is the Q6 worth the extra memory ?
  3. 2026-10-22 20:14 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open scores 39 on Artificial Analysis, the 180B Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 40. Score vs size for 11 open-weight models
  4. 2026-10-21 18:11 · r/artificial
    Locality of reference helped 94GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs at 68 tok/s on one RTX 5090
  5. 2026-10-21 18:11 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Locality of reference helped 94GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs at 68 tok/s on one RTX 5090

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