How fast will Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next feel on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)?

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is a 180B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (6B active per token). At GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S it needs about 84.4 GB of memory. The CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) has 89 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 22 tokens/sec (19–25), with the first token after 0.4 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q2_K80.9 GBFits22 tok/s0.4 sDerived
GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S83.6 GBFits22 tok/s0.4 sDerived
Q3_K_M92.0 GBPartial offload23 tok/s1.5 sProjected
IQ4_XS97.7 GBPartial offload21 tok/s1.5 sProjected
UD-Q4_K_XL111.3 GBPartial offload17 tok/s1.5 sProjected
Q4_K_M119.6 GBPartial offload16 tok/s1.5 sProjected
Q8_0188.3 GBPartial offload9.0 tok/s1.5 sProjected
FP16354.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on other hardware

Other models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

All models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.