Qwen3.8 Flash Next (Low Quant) vs 27B Q5: Is Strata Worth It on a 32GB VRAM + 32GB RAM System?
Hey everyone, just wanted to get some opinions on this since I’m still a little confused about how Strata works. I have an AMD AI PRO R9700 (32GB VRAM), 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD. Would Strata realistically let me run Qwen3.8 Flash Next at a low quant like IQ3_XS with this setup? Also, would…
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- 2026-10-16 07:51 · r/LocalLLM
moe-cache: MoE models bigger than your RAM, 2-12x faster on stock llama.cpp with identical tokens (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 68 GB @ 24 GB RAM: 5.2 → 12.5 tok/s, Qwen3.6-35B @ 12 GB RAM: 6.9 → 22.6 tok/s) - 2026-10-14 16:13 · r/LocalLLaMA
qwen3.8-flash-next-iq3_s vs -27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL - 2026-10-14 04:30 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen3.8 Flash Next (Low Quant) vs 27B Q5: Is Strata Worth It on a 32GB VRAM + 32GB RAM System?
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