Qwen 3.8 Flash Next gains traction with specialized inference engines and hardware optimizations
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Developers are deploying Qwen 3.8 Flash Next using new engines like Basalt and Radiance, achieving high speeds on consumer GPUs. Community discussions focus on vision capabilities, coding performance, and hardware compatibility.
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- 2026-10-15 04:25 · r/LocalLLM
My 5060ti 16GB setup (Qwen3.8 27b vs Qwen Flash Next) - 2026-10-15 02:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
Did someone use/try the Qwen flash 3.8 next "coder" model on some work? - 2026-10-14 22:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next compared to GLM 5.3 Flash - 2026-10-14 21:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
176 t/s decode and 6,450 t/s prefill with Q4 Qwen-3.8 Flash-Next on 2xR9700 + 64GB DDR5 using Deadcode's Radiance engine - 2026-10-14 20:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, DeepSeekV4 Flash and Time - 2026-10-14 05:37 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on 24GB + 32GB ram? - 2026-10-13 20:58 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen 3.8 flash next - 12vram+32gb ram - 2026-10-13 14:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
Basalt: Fast Blackwell inference engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (and how we got vision for free) - 2026-10-13 13:06 · r/LocalLLM
GLM 5.3 flash vs Qwen Flash Next? - 2026-10-13 09:57 · r/LocalLLaMA
Based on advice from LocalLLama implemented a n+2 lookahead prediction for ssd streaming Qwen Flash Next - and it worked!