How fast will Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next feel on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB?

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is a 180B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (6B active per token). At Q2_K it needs about 81.7 GB of memory. The AMD Instinct MI50 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it doesn't fit, even at its smallest quantization.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q2_K80.9 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S83.6 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q3_K_M92.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
IQ4_XS97.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q4_K_XL111.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q4_K_M119.6 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q8_0188.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
FP16354.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on other hardware

Other models on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB

All models on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB · 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.