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Qwen 3.8 Flash Next GSQ RCO quant as good as BF16

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Unsloth has posted about their UD v3.1 quant for Qwen3.8 FN on X saying their new quant is 15% better than GSQ RCO as the almost same file size. But the takeaway from the post for me and many other how are using IQ_3S GSQ RCO with Strata is that it is 99.0% percent as good as the BF16 The chart of…

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Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 19:13 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next at 124 tok/s on 8GB VRAM and 16GB RAM + SSD, Q3 Quant
  2. 2026-11-06 09:51 · r/LocalLLaMA
    pi + strata + qwen 3.8 flash next q4 k xl --> funny stuff in logs
  3. 2026-11-06 09:40 · r/LocalLLaMA
    CyberTiel35BA3B working on Blender Rigging via MCP. 8GB VRAM, 16GB RAM. llama.cpp.
  4. 2026-11-04 17:50 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next GSQ RCO quant as good as BF16

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