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Running a 176B Qwen3.8 Flash Next on a 16GB RTX 3080 Laptop + 32GB RAM + SSD

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How much hardware do you actually need to run a 176B-parameter Qwen3.8 Flash Next locally? Turns out, this can be enough: RTX 3080 Laptop — 16GB VRAM + 32GB system RAM + SSD. Yes — a 176B MoE model on a laptop . I’ve been working on this in TensorSharp , my open-source local LLM inference engine an…

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    Running a 176B Qwen3.8 Flash Next on a 16GB RTX 3080 Laptop + 32GB RAM + SSD

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