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Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality

Following a recent interesting post that challenges the performance of higher vs lower quants and generally advised sampling parameters (namely temp), I decided that I had too much free time on my hands and ran 12 test tasks. I ran three models that work on my hardware: - q3_xxs - q3_s - q4_xs For…

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Timeline · 6 reports

  1. 2026-10-19 17:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
    ijah --- M5+ Mac Engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next / Swift 1.5 Flash Next. Optimal Quality and Speed on 128gb
  2. 2026-10-19 00:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs
  3. 2026-10-17 21:30 · r/LocalLLM
    Testing Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Different Coding Tools
  4. 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table?
  5. 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  6. 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality

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