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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)

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Spent a day getting Qwen3.8-Flash-Next running two ways. The gap between engines is bigger than I expected, so here are the numbers. The model qwen4exp arch: 125B total / 6B active MoE (512 experts, 10 active), plus a separate ~51B-param PLE n-gram embedding table on top. 48 layers, hybrid: ~3/4 ga…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-08-31 01:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 vs Qwen3.8-27B-FP Test Results
  2. 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
  3. 2026-08-30 00:09 · r/LocalLLM
    I hit 310 t/s running Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 on 4x RTX PRO 6000
  4. 2026-08-29 14:47 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next IQ1_S on a single 5070 (12GB VRAM)
  5. 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)

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