Qwen 3.8 Flash
8recorded runs
86.8best tok/s
8verified
What the Qwen 3.8 Flash numbers mean
The fastest verified result on our board is 86.8 output tok/s on an DGX Spark at EXL3 3.05bpw with a 2048-token context. That is about 11.5 ms per generated token — 500 tokens takes roughly 5.8 seconds.
How much VRAM does Qwen 3.8 Flash need?
Qwen 3.8 Flash has 125.0B parameters. These estimates use the same formula as the VRAM calculator: weights, plus about 15% for a moderate-context KV cache and runtime overhead, plus a small engine floor.
| Quantisation | Estimated VRAM | Smallest card that fits |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M (4-bit) | 81.7 GB | 141 GB |
| Q8_0 (8-bit) | 153.5 GB | 192 GB |
| FP16 (16-bit) | 288.3 GB | multi-GPU or CPU offload |
Fastest GPUs for this model (best tok/s)
- DGX Spark86.8
Models with a similar footprint
| Model | Params | Q4_K_M weights |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next Base | 125B | 70.3 GB |
| Ling-3.0-flash | 127B | 71.4 GB |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B | 120B | 67.5 GB |
| Laguna-S-2.1 | 118B | 66.4 GB |
| gpt-oss-120b | 117B | 65.8 GB |
| Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct | 109B | 61.3 GB |
| GPU | Model | Quant | Backend | Ctx | tok/s | prompt tok/s | VRAM GB | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 2048 | 86.8 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 600 | 71.7 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 64000 | 67.4 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 110000 | 66.0 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 35000 | 58.0 ✓ | 980.0 | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 240000 | 55.8 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 32000 | 55.6 ✓ | — | — | src |
| DGX Spark · 128 GB | Qwen 3.8 Flash | EXL3 3.05bpw | exllamav2 523ecd3 | 8000 | 51.5 ✓ | — | — | src |