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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Benchmarks Show Engine and Quantization Tradeoffs

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Community tests of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen4exp) show llama.cpp prefill speeds vary from 36 to 135 tps depending on split mode, with vLLM roughly 4x faster at long context. Low-VRAM users report success with IQ1_S quant on a 12GB GPU.

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-08-30 11:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on single RTX PRO 6000 96GB + 64g RAM, full 262K context with NVMe offloading recipe
  2. 2026-08-30 00:09 · r/LocalLLM
    I hit 310 t/s running Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 on 4x RTX PRO 6000
  3. 2026-08-29 14:47 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next IQ1_S on a single 5070 (12GB VRAM)
  4. 2026-08-29 08:25 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen4exp): llama.cpp isn't ready for agentic work, vLLM is ~4x faster at long context (RTX PRO 6000, full numbers)
  5. 2026-08-28 10:55 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (UD-IQ4_XS) on 2x RTX 3060 + 7800X3D, from initial 36 tps prefill to 400 tps and other benchmarks (-sm tensor trap) + VRAM/RAM usage

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