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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Benchmarks Show Wide Performance Range Across Hardware

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Community benchmarks for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next show speeds from 33 to 203 tok/s depending on hardware and engine, with vLLM outperforming llama.cpp at long context and DGX Spark setups reaching 181-203 tok/s aggregate.

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Timeline · 7 reports

  1. 2026-08-29 14:47 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next IQ1_S on a single 5070 (12GB VRAM)
  2. 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)
  3. 2026-08-28 22:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Today I hit 181 toks/s (aggregate) on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x DGX Sparks
  4. 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
  5. 2026-08-27 20:56 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x RTX 3090s, 33-43 tok/s
  6. 2026-08-27 18:10 · r/LocalLLM
    unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — 43.4 tok/s — llm-bench.io
  7. 2026-08-27 15:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 running on vLLM across 2x DGX Spark — 63 tok/s single stream, 203 tok/s at 8 concurrent. Needed a 3-line patch, repo inside

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