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So, had anyone done a comparison between Qwen Next 3.8 Flash Q4 and Qwen 3.8 27b Q8 yet?

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I only ask because I am intrigued by whether the new model at a lower precision is significantly better than the (already fantastic) dense model. I'd run it myself, but my GX10 is going to be tied up with coding tasks until the end of the day :)

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  1. 2026-08-27 10:04 · r/LocalLLM
    So, had anyone done a comparison between Qwen Next 3.8 Flash Q4 and Qwen 3.8 27b Q8 yet?

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