Strata + Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: fast, but what's it costing in quality?
Lots of hype around Strata lately and the speeds look great. But everything I see is tokens per second and needle tests. Has anyone checked if quality holds up? Same GGUF on llama.cpp should answer the quant question, but Strata also prunes experts. Does that cost anything in actual use? submitted…
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- 2026-10-19 17:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
ijah --- M5+ Mac Engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next / Swift 1.5 Flash Next. Optimal Quality and Speed on 128gb - 2026-10-19 00:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs - 2026-10-17 21:30 · r/LocalLLM
Testing Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Different Coding Tools - 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table? - 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality - 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality - 2026-10-17 10:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
Strata - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - boosting decoding speed Tip - 2026-10-17 09:23 · r/LocalLLM
Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh - 2026-10-17 08:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
Strata + Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: fast, but what's it costing in quality?