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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash achieve high speeds on consumer hardware

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash demonstrate high inference speeds and long-context capabilities on M5 Ultra Macs and RTX GPUs using llama.cpp and vLLM.

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  1. 2026-10-12 15:51 · AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Deploy decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI
  2. 2026-10-12 08:37 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on six 3090s with vLLM: 7 users at 262k, 6.5k t/s prefill, 57 t/s decode solo / 206 t/s aggregate with all 7 generating. Fixes for the upstream included.
  3. 2026-10-12 05:12 · r/LocalLLM
    GLM-5.3-Flash on a Mac Studio with oMLX: 61 tok/s and a 29K-token prompt in 15 seconds
  4. 2026-10-12 00:58 · r/LocalLLM
    IQ3_XXS Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B at full 262K context on one 3090 and 32GB of RAM — my config and my numbers, and I'd like to see yours
  5. 2026-10-11 11:12 · r/LocalLLM
    RTX 5090 32GB + 64GB RAM — Qwen3.8 Flash-Next IQ3_XXS Running at 700K Context Without a Single Session Compaction
  6. 2026-10-11 02:20 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on an RTX 5090: 128GB RAM: IQ3_XXS vs IQ3_S vs UD-IQ4_XS — Speed and Accuracy with Strata
  7. 2026-10-10 18:07 · r/LocalLLM
    GLM-5.3-Flash (320B) on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with llama.cpp: 61 tok/s, 262K context
  8. 2026-10-10 03:21 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B) at ~100 tok/s on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with llama.cpp

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