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

I wanted to see how far I could push a fairly ordinary laptop with a huge MoE model. Turns out, Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B can run on: RTX 3080 Laptop — 16GB VRAM 32GB system RAM SSD No 128GB/256GB RAM workstation and no multi-GPU setup. I’m running it with TensorSharp , my open-source local LLM infer…

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  1. 2026-10-03 20:15 · r/LocalLLM
    Running a 176B Qwen3.8 Flash Next on a 16GB RTX 3080 Laptop + 32GB RAM + SSD
  2. 2026-10-03 20:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Running Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B on a 16GB RTX 3080 Laptop + 32GB RAM + SSD

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