Comment by bestham

4 hours ago

All I know is that Strata and these models are the most I have ever gotten out of my machine. I get 70 t/s on a standard gaming rig 9070 XT / 5900X / 64 GB DDR4 @3400.

Yeah, they're surprisingly usable eventually. What I found running the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next IQ3_XXS on CUDA kernel development was, sure it generated faster t/s than 27B dense, but it generated so many more bugs, and when the quantization is lower the reasoning traces get longer. It was more or less always able to figure out what bugs it had made and fix them, but it took quite a lot of time to do. I switched back to Q6 on the dense model and that just went away for the most part. I recently upgraded to 128GB system RAM so that I can up to Q5 on Flash Next. Really excited for Qwen4-Flash when it comes out. Gonna be a real beast.