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Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh

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I just tried to install QFN from unsloth (Q4_K_XL) on my strix halo laptop with 128gb of ram. Set it up with Gufo port for windows, using opencode v2 on my macOS as the harness and the effort is set to high. I wanted to do some testing and compare it with opus 5.5 xhigh with the official claude cod…

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  1. 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
  2. 2026-10-19 00:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs
  3. 2026-10-17 21:30 · r/LocalLLM
    Testing Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Different Coding Tools
  4. 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table?
  5. 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  6. 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality
  7. 2026-10-17 10:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Strata - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - boosting decoding speed Tip
  8. 2026-10-17 09:23 · r/LocalLLM
    Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh

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