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Minimal total RAM + VRAM to run Qwen 3.8 flash next with decent speed?

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Basically the title. How much combined VRAM + RAM would one need to run this model, on some usable quant, with a somewhat decent context window, with decent speed? Assuming the ngrams are on the SSD, also I have heard that even some of the experts can stay on the SSD with little to no performance p…

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  1. 2026-09-12 11:02 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I am impressed and I owe you one, Qwen 3.8 flash next (vision)!
  2. 2026-09-12 07:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen flash next beats Fable
  3. 2026-09-12 00:01 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next On Mac Mini with 64gb Works
  4. 2026-09-11 22:12 · r/LocalLLM
    Minimal total RAM + VRAM to run Qwen 3.8 flash next with decent speed?

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