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Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 79 tok/s with Strata and a 5-bit quant on 128 GB of RAM

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Two weeks ago I wrote about running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with EXL3 and TabbyAPI on 40+ GB of RAM . Since then the workstation got 128 GB of RAM, and that changed which setup is fastest. This guide covers the setup we now use every day: Strata serving Unsloth's 5-bit UD-Q5_K_XL GGUF of the same 125B m…

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    Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 79 tok/s with Strata and a 5-bit quant on 128 GB of RAM

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