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Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at Full 262K Context on a 128GB MacBook

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Benchmarks for Qwen's new hybrid-attention MoE at its native 262K context on a 128GB M5 Max: the architecture that makes it fit, the day-0 recipe, and a depth sweep from 0 to 262K tokens.

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  1. 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
  2. 2026-08-30 00:09 · r/LocalLLM
    I hit 310 t/s running Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 on 4x RTX PRO 6000
  3. 2026-08-29 13:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Honey, i shrunk Qwen3. 8-Flash-Next
  4. 2026-08-28 02:25 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at Full 262K Context on a 128GB MacBook

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